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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum molle
|accepted_authority=(Rydberg) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 286. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Soft aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster mollis
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=28: 22. 1901
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales;Symphyotrichum molle
|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 molle]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 472
|treatment_page=page 535
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–60 cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, ascending to erect, densely puberulent to lanate, especially distally. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins entire, apices acute, faces densely lanate-puberulent; basal often withering by flowering, subpetiolate, blades oblanceolate, 15–50 × 5–20 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, faces densely lanate; proximal cauline sessile or subpetiolate, blades oblanceolate, 50–150 × 10–25 mm, bases slightly clasping, rarely auriculate; distal sessile, blades lanceolate, 30–100 × 10–20 mm, reduced distally, bases tapered, ± auriculate, apices acute. <b>Heads</b> in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, branches to 20 cm. <b>Peduncles</b> densely cinereous to lanate, bracts 0–3, lanceolate to narrowly ovate. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 7–9 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5(–6) series, squarrose, oblong to oblanceolate, unequal, bases of outer indurate less than 1/3, margins entire, green zones oblong-linear to oblanceolate, apices acute or obtuse (sometimes minutely mucronate), faces densely puberulent to lanate. <b>Ray</b> florets 20–35; corollas violet, laminae 12–20 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 35–70; corollas yellow, 5–6.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm, 4–5-nerved, faces hairy; pappi whitish, 5–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug.
|habitat=Dry montane meadows
|elevation=2000–3000 m
|distribution=Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum molle</i> is known only from the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. Because of its densely hairy leaves, stems, and involucres, it was compared by its author with <i>S. jessicae</i>, a narrow endemic of southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum molle
|authority=(Rydberg) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster mollis
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug.
|habitat=Dry montane meadows
|elevation=2000–3000 m
|distribution=Wyo.
|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 molle
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