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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum georgianum
|accepted_authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 282. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Georgia aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster georgianus
|authority=Alexander
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. K. Small, Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication_place=1381, 1509. 1933
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster patens var. georgianus
|authority=(Alexander) Cronquist
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus georgianus
|authority=(Alexander) Semple
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus patens var. georgianus
|authority=(Alexander) Reveal & Keener
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum georgianum
|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 georgianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 470, 483, 491
|treatment_page=page 490
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 50–100 cm, colonial; rhizomatous, woody. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect, straight (± stout, light to dark brown), proximally sparsely to moderately short-strigose, distally densely so, stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> (dark green) thick, firm, margins revolute (sometimes ± undulate), scabrous; basal early deciduous, sessile or subpetiolate, blades spatulate to obovate [size unknown], bases cuneate, margins entire to ± serrate, apices acute, faces finely scabrous; proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades (adaxially obscurely veined) oblong to lanceolate or narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, proximalmost ± pandurate, 20–70 × 10–20 mm, gradually reduced distally, bases auriculate-clasping, margins entire, finely scabrous, faces finely scabrous, stipitate-glandular; distal sessile, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 14–50 × 6–11 mm, reduced distally (much smaller on branches and grading ± abruptly into bracts), bases ± auriculate-clasping to subclasping, margins entire, apices mucronate to white-spinulose, faces scabrous, sometimes sparsely to moderately stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in narrow, racemiform to ± broad, paniculiform arrays, sometimes borne singly on branches, branches initially patent then ascending, leafy. <b>Peduncles</b> densely short-strigose, ± densely short-stipitate-glandular, bracts 1–8+, spreading to reflexed, linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, strigillose, stipitate-glandular, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to hemispheric, 8–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–7 series, spatulate-oblong to lanceolate, unequal, innermost linear-lanceolate, bases tan, ± indurate in proximal 1/3–1/2, margins hyaline, not (outer) to narrowly scarious, strigoso- or hispido-ciliate, sometimes also stipitate-glandular (foliaceous apices), green zones lanceolate-spatulate, covering distal 1/2 or less, foliaceous apically, apices acute (outer) to acuminate or ± caudate (inner), spreading or reflexed (longer, inner), often purplish, faces moderately strigillose, stipitate-glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 12–24; corollas lavender violet to dark reddish purple, laminae 14–24 × 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 20–40; corollas white with purplish lobes, 7–9 mm, throats cylindro-funnelform (sparsely pilose), lobes narrowly triangular, 0.7–1.5 mm (sparsely glandular). <b>Cypselae</b> gray-brown, narrowly obovoid, compressed, 2.5–4 mm, 7–10-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi tan to tawny, 9–11 mm. <b>2n</b> = 50.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy and clay soils, oak-pine woodlands, road embankments (mostly Piedmont)
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Symphyotrichum georgianum</i> is disjunct and rare in southwestern Georgia and Leon County, Florida.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum georgianum
|authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Aster patens var. georgianus;Virgulus georgianus;Virgulus patens var. georgianus
|basionyms=Aster georgianus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy and clay soils, oak-pine woodlands, road embankments (mostly Piedmont)
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;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_1101.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum georgianum
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