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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum anomalum
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann ex Torrey & A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 275. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Manyray aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster anomalus
|authority=Engelmann ex Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=2: 503. 1843
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum anomalum
|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 anomalum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 471, 500, 505
|treatment_page=page 504
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 20–100(–120) cm, cespitose; usually with short, stout, branched caudices, woody with age, sometimes long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect or ascending (straight, often stout), proximally usually ± densely hirtellous, sometimes glabrescent, distally hirsute. <b>Leaves</b> thick, firm, margins (slightly undulate) scabrous, adaxial faces glabrous or strigose, scabrous, adaxial ± sparsely hirsute to scabro-hirtellous, sometimes ± scabrous (cauline sometimes with tufts of smaller leaves in axils); basal withering by flowering, petiolate (petioles sometimes narrowly winged), blades oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 10–40 × 10–20 mm, bases deeply cordate, margins sparsely serrate to serrulate, apices usually acute, sometimes obtuse to rounded; proximal cauline usually withering by flowering, petiolate (petioles slender to ± winged), blades ovate to broadly lanceolate, 40–90 × (15–) 25–50 mm, bases shallowly cordate or rounded to attenuate, rarely truncate, margins subentire or entire (rarely serrulate), apices acute or acuminate, with short callus point; distal subpetiolate or sessile, blades ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 10–70 × 1–10 mm, gradually or abruptly reduced distally, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire, apices acute to acuminate. <b>Heads</b> in open, diffuse, paniculiform arrays, branches divaricate, stout, long, densely bracteate. <b>Peduncles</b> densely bracteate, 0.3–5(–10) cm (rarely subsesssile), bracts numerous, linear, 2–6 mm, mucronulate, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6 series, oblong-lanceolate (outer) to oblanceolate-linear (innermost), unequal, bases indurate (appressed), margins ciliate to scabro-ciliate, green zones diamond-shaped to lanceolate, ± foliaceous distally, apices reflexed to squarrose, long-acuminate, apiculate, often purple, faces strigoso-hirtellous. <b>Ray</b> florets 18–45; corollas usually bright lavender-blue to purple, seldom white, laminae 9–15(–18) × 1–3.2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 33–40+; corollas cream or light yellow turning pinkish purple, (4–)4.5–5.5 mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes sometimes ± spreading, triangular to lanceolate, 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> deep purple to purplish brown or brown with purple speckles (nerves stramineous), oblong-obovoid, compressed, (1–)2.5–3.5(–3.8) mm, 5–6-nerved, faces glabrous; pappi tawny or rose-tinged, 3.7–5.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Dry, sandy, loamy, or clayey soils over limestone, or acid soils over chert, sandstone, or granite, rocky, open deciduous woods, thickets, dry ridges, cliffs, bluffs, occasional along streams
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.
|discussion=<p>A. G. Jones (1989, 1992) reported that <i>Symphyotrichum anomalum</i> may hybridize with <i>S. drummondii</i>, <i>S. oolentangiense</i>, and <i>S. shortii</i>.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum anomalum
|authority=(Engelmann ex Torrey & A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster anomalus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Dry, sandy, loamy, or clayey soils over limestone, or acid soils over chert, sandstone, or granite, rocky, open deciduous woods, thickets, dry ridges, cliffs, bluffs, occasional along streams
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.
|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 anomalum
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