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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum simmondsii
|accepted_authority=(Small) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 291. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Simmonds’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster simmondsii
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Miami,
|publication_place=190, 200. 1913
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum simmondsii
|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. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum simmondsii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 475, 477, 501, 515
|treatment_page=page 514
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 10–120 cm, colonial (sometimes extensively); long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–3+, erect (straight, rigid, sometimes stout), sparsely scabrellous or glabrescent to glabrate or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> firm, margins recurved, scabrous to scabrellous, apices acute to acuminate, mucronulate, abaxial faces pilosulous to glabrate or glabrous, midveins marked, adaxial scabridulous; basal withering by flowering, petiolate (petioles winged, bases sheathing), blades oblanceolate, 26–80 × 6–16 mm, bases attenuate, margins serrate, apices obtuse to acute; proximal cauline mostly withering by flowering, petiolate to subpetiolate (petioles winged, sheathing to clasping), blades elliptic to oblanceolate or lanceolate or lanceolate-linear to sometimes linear, 45–70+ × 8–15 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins serrate or crenate-serrate or entire; distal (erect or spreading) sessile, blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 10–120 × 5–8 mm, reduced distally, sharply so on array branches, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins serrulate or entire. <b>Heads</b> in racemiform to usually open, sometimes ± lax, paniculiform arrays, rarely borne singly, branches ascending to spreading, often straggling and arched, ± leafy (each usually with 10+ heads), secondaries sometimes erect and secund-like. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.3–6+ cm, irregular in length along branches, sometimes distally reduced, glabrate to sparsely scabridulous, bracts 7–12+, spreading to ascending, abruptly reduced distally, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to campanulo-turbinate, (4.5–)6–8 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 5–6 series, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate (innermost), strongly unequal, bases indurate 1/2–4/5, margins narrowly scarious, distally erose, hyaline, ciliolate, green zones oblanceolate (outer sometimes ± foliaceous), apices acute (inner sometimes acuminate), mucronate, often purplish tipped, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 18–38; corollas pale lilac or lavender to pale purple, laminae 9–11 × 0.9–1.7 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 24–37; corollas yellow becoming reddish, 4.5–7 mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate, 0.9–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, oblong-obovoid to fusiform-obovoid, compressed, 2–2.6 mm, 4–6-nerved, faces ± strigillose; pappi cream, 4.6–6.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Jan.
|habitat=Moist or dry soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum simmondsii</i> is known only from peninsular Florida and the southeastern coastal plain. A report from New Jersey is based on an incomplete specimen and appears doubtful.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum simmondsii
|authority=(Small) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster simmondsii
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Jan.
|habitat=Moist or dry soils
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;N.C.;S.C.
|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. Symphyotrichum
|species=Symphyotrichum simmondsii
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