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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum lentum
|accepted_authority=(Greene) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 286. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Suisun marsh aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster lentus
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Man. Bot. San Francisco,
|publication_place=180. 1894
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster chilensis var. lentus
|authority=(Greene) Jepson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster chilensis var. sonomensis
|authority=(Greene) Jepson
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales;Symphyotrichum lentum
|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 lentum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 477
|treatment_page=page 536
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 40–150(–200) cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5, ascending to erect, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous; basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 100–150 × 5–10 mm, attenuate or cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, faces usually glabrous; proximalmost cauline usually withering by flowering, sessile, blades linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 50–90 × 5–8(–20) mm, bases attenuate or cuneate; distal sessile, blades 40–80 × 5–8(–15) mm, bases cuneate. <b>Heads</b> in paniculiform arrays, branches some at least 25 cm. <b>Peduncles</b> glabrous or sparsely villous, bracts 5–15, sessile, lance-linear to lanceolate, margins sometimes spiculate. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–8 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, narrowly oblong (outer) to linear (inner), unequal (outer at least 3 times longer than wide), bases (outer) indurate 1/2 or less, margins scarious proximally, eciliate or ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to elliptic, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 20–45+; corollas violet, laminae 10–18 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 35–70+; corollas yellow, 5–7 mm, lobes triangular, 0.8–1.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3–4 mm, 2–4-nerved, faces glabrous or hairy; pappi white, 5–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16, 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Salt marshes, wet grasslands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum lentum</i> is known only from the Sacramento Valley, North Bay County, lower Sacramento River, and San Francisco Bay areas. Probable intergrades with <i>S. chilense</i> have been noted.</p><!--
--><p>of conservation concern</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum lentum
|authority=(Greene) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster chilensis var. lentus;Aster chilensis var. sonomensis
|basionyms=Aster lentus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Salt marshes, wet grasslands
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.
|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 lentum
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