View source for Symphyotrichum cusickii

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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum cusickii
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 278. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Cusick’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster cusickii
|authority=A. Gray
|publication_title=Notes Compositae,
|publication_place=99. 1880
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster foliaceus var. cusickii
|authority=(A. Gray) Cronquist
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales;Symphyotrichum cusickii
|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. Occidentales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum cusickii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 476, 534
|treatment_page=page 532
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 40–100 cm, colonial or cespitose; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, ascending to erect, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous or puberulent; basal often withering by flowering, petiolate, blades broadly elliptic to obovate, 5–200 × 10–35 mm, attenuate or cuneate, margins entire, apices acute; proximalmost cauline sometimes withering by flowering, sessile, blades oblanceolate to obovate, 70–120 × 15–50 mm, bases strongly clasping, enlarged and usually narrowed distally, usually prominently auriculate, margins entire, apices acute; distal sessile, blades lanceolate to broadly elliptic, 30–110 × 10–30 mm, bases truncate or auriculate, margins entire. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in often congested, paniculiform arrays, branches 20–30 cm. <b>Peduncles</b> sparsely to densely cinereous, bracts lanceolate. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 10–20 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, broadly to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), ± equal or outer slightly exceeding inner, bases outer foliaceous, inner scarious, margins scarious, entire or erose, green zones elliptic to lanceolate, apices acute, faces glabrous or finely hairy. <b>Ray</b> florets 25–55; corollas violet, laminae 10–18 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 60–150+; corollas yellow, 2.5–4 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–0.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3–3.5 mm, 3–6-nerved, faces hairy; pappi white, 5–9(–11) mm. <b>2n</b> = 16, 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Damp meadows in dry forests, often near springs and streams
|elevation=1000–1500 m
|distribution=Alta.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum cusickii</i> occurs principally in north-eastern Oregon, north-central Idaho, and adjacent western Montana.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum cusickii
|author=
|authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster foliaceus var. cusickii
|basionyms=Aster cusickii
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Damp meadows in dry forests, often near springs and streams
|elevation=1000–1500 m
|distribution=Alta.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|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. Occidentales
|species=Symphyotrichum cusickii
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