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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum concolor
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 278. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Eastern silvery aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster concolor
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 874. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lasallea concolor
|authority=(Linnaeus) Semple & Brouillet
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus concolor
|authority=(Linnaeus) Reveal & Keener
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum concolor
|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. Virgulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum concolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 473, 475, 483, 493
|treatment_page=page 492
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–80 cm, cespitose; with cormoid, woody caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–10+, ascending to erect (light to dark brown), glabrous or densely canescent distally. <b>Leaves</b> (green to graysih) soft to firm; basal withering by flowering, sessile, blades (1–3-nerved) elliptic-lanceolate, 10–43 × 5–15 mm, bases attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely remotely serrate, piloso-ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, faces silvery silky-pilose to sparsely pilose; proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades oblanceolate, 20–35 × 5–15 mm, bases rounded, subclasping, margins entire, scabrous to silky-pilose, apices acute to obtuse, cuspidate mucronate, faces ± densely silky; distal sessile, blades usually oblong to lanceolate, rarely ovate, 9–15 × 1.8–5 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, mucronate, faces ± densely silky or sparsely strigose, sometimes glabrate (<i></i>var.<i> devestitum</i>). <b>Heads</b> in narrow, paniculiform (virgate) arrays (1–3(–5) per branch). <b>Peduncles</b> densely hairy, bracts becoming linear, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to narrowly campanulate, 5–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–5 series, appressed, lanceolate-oblong, strongly unequal, bases (tan) ± indurate, margins scarious proximally, green distally, green zones restricted to apex, obscured by hair, apices usually acute, sometimes acuminate, usually mucronate, sometimes subspinulose, faces ± densely silky. <b>Ray</b> florets 8–12; corollas rose-purple, rarely white, laminae 4–9 × 1–1.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets (9–)11–17(–21); corollas pink turning purple, 4.5–6 mm, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats (thinly puberulent), lobes triangular, 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm, 7–10-nerved, faces densely strigose; pappi tan, (3.5–)4–6 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=e United States.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Distal cauline leaves and phyllaries moderately to densely silky; e United States
|[[Symphyotrichum concolor var. concolor|Symphyotrichum concolor var. concolor]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Distal cauline leaves and phyllaries glabrous or sparsely hispido-pilose; panhandle Florida
|[[Symphyotrichum concolor var. devestitum|Symphyotrichum concolor var. devestitum]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum concolor
|authority=(Linnaeus) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Lasallea concolor;Virgulus concolor
|basionyms=Aster concolor
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=e United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum concolor
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