View source for Ampelaster carolinianus

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|accepted_name=Ampelaster carolinianus
|accepted_authority=(Walter) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 250. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Climbing aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster carolinianus
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication_place=208. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster scandens
|authority=J. Jacquin ex Sprengel
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Symphyotrichum carolinianum
|authority=(Walter) Wunderlin & B. F. Hansen
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus carolinianus
|authority=(Walter) Reveal & Keener
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ampelaster;Ampelaster carolinianus
|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>[[Ampelaster]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ampelaster carolinianus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>deciduous to evergreen by production of new growth, sprawling, climbing over other plants. <b>Stems</b> weak, 5–10 mm diam., branches at right angles. <b>Leaf</b> blades 30–70 × 10–15(–20) mm, reduced distally, membranous, bases auriculate-clasping, apices acuminate. <b>Heads</b> 1–15 per branch. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–4 cm, densely pilose; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 mm. <b>Ray</b> florets: laminae 9–15(–20) × 1–1.6 mm; style-branch appendages narrowly triangular. <b>Disc</b> florets corollas 6–8 mm, limbs 50–60% corollas, lobes 0.6–1.1 mm, 10–20% corollas. <b>Cypselae</b> usually tan to brown, sometimes mottled purple to black between light colored ribs, 3.5–4.3 mm; pappi shorter than disc corollas. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering peak late fall–winter, year round (Fla).
|habitat=Marshy shores, stream banks, edges of swamps and moist thickets, wet woodlands
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Ampelaster carolinianus</i> grows on the outer coastal plain. It is possibly extirpated in North Carolina.</p>
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name=Ampelaster carolinianus
|authority=(Walter) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aster scandens;Symphyotrichum carolinianum;Virgulus carolinianus
|basionyms=Aster carolinianus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering peak late fall–winter, year round (Fla).
|habitat=Marshy shores, stream banks, edges of swamps and moist thickets, wet woodlands
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_1064.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ampelaster
|species=Ampelaster carolinianus
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