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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum rhiannon
|accepted_authority=Weakley & Govus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=21: 828, fig. 1. 2004
|year=2004
}}
|common_names=Rhiannon’s aster
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum rhiannon
|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 rhiannon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 472, 501, 525
|treatment_page=page 526
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 15–40(–60) cm, colonial; thinly long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect (straight), hirsute to hispido-hirsute, hirsutulous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: margins shallowly crenate to serrate-crenate, abaxial faces strigillose, adaxial scabrous; basal withering by flowering, petiolate, petioles winged, clasping to subclasping, shallowly auriculate, blades subspatulate or oblanceolate-elliptic, 30–70 × 10–15 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate, apices acute; proximal cauline withering by flowering, widely winged-petiolate, blades oblanceolate-elliptic, 50–110 × 8–22 mm, bases attenuate, apices acute; distal subsessile, blades oblong-lanceolate, 10–30 × 4–6(–8) mm. <b>Heads</b> in broad, cylindro-paniculiform arrays, branches ascending. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.5–1.5(–3) cm, bracts foliaceous. <b>Involucres</b> turbino-campanulate, 6–11 wide mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, slightly unequal, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, bases indurate 1/2–2/3, margins not scarious, irregularly ciliolate, green zones rhombic-lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or distally strigoso-puberulent. <b>Ray</b> florets 18–32; corollas blue to lavender, laminae 6–9 × 0.8–1.4 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets [number unknown]; corollas yellow, at least lobes becoming purple, (4–)4.5–5.5 mm, tubes shorter than cylindro-funnelform limbs, lobes triangular, 0.8–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to often purplish, oblong to oblanceoloid, ± compressed, 2.6–3 mm, 4–6-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose; pappi white, [length unknown] mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Ultramafic outcrop barrens, in Quercus alba-Pinus rigida-Sporobolus heterolepis-Andropogon gerardii woodlands and grass-dominated areas
|elevation=900–1300 m
|distribution=N.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Symphyotrichum rhiannon</i> is known only from a southern Appalachian high-elevation outcrop barren around Buck Creek, southern Nantahala Mountains, Clay County.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum rhiannon
|author=
|authority=Weakley & Govus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct(–Nov).
|habitat=Ultramafic outcrop barrens, in Quercus alba-Pinus rigida-Sporobolus heterolepis-Andropogon gerardii woodlands and grass-dominated areas
|elevation=900–1300 m
|distribution=N.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=2004
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum
|section=Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
|species=Symphyotrichum rhiannon
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