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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum fendleri
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 282. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Fendler’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster fendleri
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication_place=4: 66. 1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus fendleri
|authority=(A. Gray) Reveal & Keener
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum fendleri
|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. Virgulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum fendleri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 471, 483
|treatment_page=page 486
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 6–30 cm, cespitose; with thick, woody, branched caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–10+, decumbent to ascending or erect (grayish brown, slender), sparsely strigoso-hispid, ± scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> (dark bright green) firm, much reduced distally, margins entire, apices acute, mucronate, faces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigoso-hispid; basal withering by flowering (new vernal rosettes often present), sessile, blades (1–3-nerved) linear-oblanceolate, 20–40 × 5–30 mm, bases attenuate, margins scabro-ciliate; proximal cauline sometimes persistent, sessile, blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–40 × 5–20 mm, bases sometimes subclasping, margins entire, scabrous; distal sessile, blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 20–40 × 2–3 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire, coarsely cililate-spinulose, apices acute, white-spinulose, faces sometimes stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in ± narrowly racemiform to paniculiform arrays, branches sometimes initially patent, then spreading to ascending. <b>Peduncles</b> sparsely hispido-strigose, ± densely stipitate-glandular, bracts ± ascending, linear to lance-oblong, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 4–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, lanceolate, unequal, bases ± indurate, margins narrowly to widely scarious, hyaline except apically, sometimes ciliolate, often stipitate-glandular, green zones lanceolate to diamond-shaped, covering distal portion (outer), apices acuminate, spreading to reflexed, faces glabrous, moderately to densely short-stipitate-glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 10–20; corollas light to dark lavender to purple, laminae 5–10 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets (7–)10–30; corollas yellow becoming reddish purple, 3.5–5 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes narrowly triangular, 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown (nerves stramineous), obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2.5 mm, 7–10-nerved, faces moderately strigillose; pappi cinnamon to sordid, sometimes purplish-tinged, 4.5–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Open, sandy, silty, shaly, often rocky soils, eroded limestone or sandstone outcrops, mixed-grass prairies, pastures, roadsides
|elevation=600–2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum fendleri</i> has been reported from Mexico (Chihuahua) [by C. H. Schultz-Bipontinus (1856) fide G. L. Nesom (pers. comm.)], but its occurrence in Mexico remains to be confirmed.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum fendleri
|authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Virgulus fendleri
|basionyms=Aster fendleri
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Open, sandy, silty, shaly, often rocky soils, eroded limestone or sandstone outcrops, mixed-grass prairies, pastures, roadsides
|elevation=600–2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum fendleri
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