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|accepted_name=Aster tataricus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Suppl. Pl.,
|place=373. 1782
|year=1782
}}
|common_names=Tatarian aster
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster rhomboideus
|authority=Lindley ex de Candolle
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Linosyris tatarica
|authority=(Lessing) C. A. Meyer
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Aster;Aster tataricus
|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>[[Aster]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aster tataricus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 20
|treatment_page=page 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>50–150(–300) cm, densely colonial; rhizomes fleshy, ± woody with age, with abundant fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> 1–3+, erect, sparsely to densely (distally) strigillose. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, very coarse, margins scabrous, apices mucronate, faces scabrous; basal usually deciduous by flowering; proximal cauline persistent, long-petiolate (petioles ± winged, bases sheathing), blades strongly 1-nerved, oblanceolate, 300–500 × (50–)60–120 mm, bases attenuate, margins undulate, recurved, coarsely serrate, teeth mucronate, apices acuminate, acute, or rounded; mid and distal subpetiolate to sessile, blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 40–180 × 10–50 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate, sheathing, margins serrate or entire, apices acute to acuminate; distal (arrays) abruptly reduced, lanceolate, 5–10 mm, apices acute to acuminate. <b>Heads</b> 14–50+ in corymbiform arrays, branches ascending. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, (6.5–)7–10(–12) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, ovate to lanceolate (outer) or linear-lanceolate to linear (inner), green to base along midnerves or outer sometimes largely foliaceous, apices acute (outer) to long-acuminate (inner), abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely strigillose. <b>Rays</b> 14–30; laminae pale lavender or purple, 10–15 × 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets (20–)25–30(–50); corollas light yellow turning lavender at least in lobes, (4.5–)5–6 mm, tubes about as long as campanulate throats. <b>Cypselae</b> light brown, linear-obconic, slightly compressed or plump, 1.5–2 mm, nerves 4–5(–6), faces glabrate to thinly strigillose; pappi white or cream-colored, 6–8 mm, shorter than disc corollas. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall.
|habitat=Fields, open roadsides
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Ky.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;W.Va.;Eurasia (native to s Siberia).
|discussion=<p><i>Aster tataricus</i> has been reported from Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia; I have not seen supporting specimens.</p><!--
--><p>Cultivars of Tatarian aster are grown in North America (J. C. Semple et al. 2002), where they sometimes escape from cultivation.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Aster tataricus
|authority=Linnaeus f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aster rhomboideus;Linosyris tatarica
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering fall.
|habitat=Fields, open roadsides
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Ky.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;W.Va.;Eurasia (native to s Siberia).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Suppl. Pl.,
|publication year=1782
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_5.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Aster
|species=Aster tataricus
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