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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum elliottii
|accepted_authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 280. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Elliott’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster elliottii
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=2: 140. 1841
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum elliottii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum elliottii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 476, 501, 525
|treatment_page=page 524
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 60–160(–200) cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect (straight, stout, sometimes purplish pink), mostly glabrous, hirsutulous in arrays, mainly in lines. <b>Leaves</b> firm, margins serrate to serrulate, scabridulous, apices acute to shortly acuminate, apiculate to mucronate, abaxial faces glabrous, adaxial scabridulous; basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate (petioles narrowly winged, sheathing), blades elliptic, 50–250 × 10–50 mm, bases attenuate; proximal cauline withering by flowering, long-petiolate to subpetiolate (petioles winged, bases expanded, sheathing), blades elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, gradually reduced distally, 70–110 × 15–35 mm, bases attenuate; distal subpetiolate or sessile, (petioles broadly winged, bases sheathing to clasping), blades elliptic, 10–70 × 1–30 mm, progressively reduced distally, more strongly so on branches, bases attenuate to cuneate, clasping, margins serrulate or entire. <b>Heads</b> in paniculiform arrays, branches strongly ascending, leafy. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.5–2.5 cm, to erect, hirsute, bracts 3–5, linear, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly campanulate, 8–11 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 5–6 series, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate to linear, slightly unequal, bases indurate 1/3–1/2, margins narrowly scarious, hyaline, sparsely and remotely ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to linear, outer distally foliaceous, sometimes constricted in middle, apices spreading to squarrose, long-acuminate, apiculate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets (25–)30–46+; corollas pink or sometimes lavender, laminae 7–14 × 0.8–1.6 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 25–35+; corollas pale yellow becoming pink and later brown, 6–6.2 mm, tubes slightly shorter than narrowly funnelform limbs, lobes narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to pale brown, oblanceoloid, compressed, 2–2.7 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy; pappi sordid or whitish, 5.5–5.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, low sites, swamps, bogs, marshes, brackish marshes
|elevation=0–50+ m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum elliottii</i> grows on the Atlantic coastal plain. It is of conservation concern in some states.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum elliottii
|author=
|authority=(Torrey & A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster elliottii
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, low sites, swamps, bogs, marshes, brackish marshes
|elevation=0–50+ m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum
|section=Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
|species=Symphyotrichum elliottii
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