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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum turbinellum
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 293. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Prairie aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster turbinellus
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
|publication_title=Compan. Bot. Mag.
|publication_place=1: 98. 1835
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum turbinellum
|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 turbinellum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 476, 501, 531
|treatment_page=page 530
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–100 cm, cespitose; with thick, branched, woody caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect, straight (stout, brittle), glabrous or sparsely hirtellous in lines. <b>Leaves</b> (paler green or bluish green abaxially) firm, margins scabrous, apices mucronate, faces glabrous, abaxial raised midribs scabrous to glabrate; basal withering by flowering, subpetiolate to shortly petiolate (petioles winged, sheathing, coarsely ciliate), blades oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 45–65 × 5–8 mm, bases cuneate, margins shallowly crenate, strigoso-ciliate, apices acute, obtuse or rounded; proximal cauline withering by flowering, subpetiolate or sessile, blades elliptic-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate or -lanceolate, 40–120 × 5–20 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate to slightly attenuate or rounded, slightly clasping, margins serrulate-crenate or entire, apices acute to acuminate; distal sessile, blades oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, (10–)15–100 × 1–5 mm, gradually reduced distally (more strongly so on branches), bases cuneate or rounded, margins entire, apices acuminate. <b>Heads</b> in open, broad, much ramified, paniculiform arrays, branches ascending to arching, thin, brittle, remotely leafy, rarely sessile. <b>Peduncles</b> long, thin, (1–)4–10(–25) cm, branches to 10 cm, bracts 8–15, regularly spaced but becoming crowded distally, appressed or ascending, linear-oblong to subulate, 1.5–4 mm, grading into phyllaries, mucronulate. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate to cylindro-campanulate, 7–12 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 6–9 series, appressed or ± spreading, shortly oblong-lanceolate to subulate (outer) to linear-oblong or linear (inner), strongly unequal, bases indurate 1/2–5/6, abaxially rounded, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, sparsely ciliolate distally, green zones oblanceolate to rhombic-oblanceolate, in distal 1/6–1/2, apices acute (outer) to obtuse or rounded (inner), often callous-mucronulate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 14–20; corollas light blue to lavender or purple, laminae 12–20 × (1–)1.5–2.8 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 15–20+; corollas yellow turning purple, (4.5–)5–7 mm, tubes slightly shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> yellow-tan or light brown to gray, obovoid, ± compressed, (1.8–)2–2.8 mm, 2–4-nerved, faces minutely strigillose; pappi whitish to reddish brown, 4.5–6.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 96.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, dry, acidic (chert, sandstone, or granite), rocky or loamy soils, woods and glades on upland slopes and ridges in soils associated with or on leached soils above bluffs, pastures, roadsides
|elevation=60–900 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Nebr.;Okla.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum turbinellum</i> is mostly Ozarkian.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum turbinellum
|authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster turbinellus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, dry, acidic (chert, sandstone, or granite), rocky or loamy soils, woods and glades on upland slopes and ridges in soils associated with or on leached soils above bluffs, pastures, roadsides
|elevation=60–900 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;La.;Mo.;Nebr.;Okla.
|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 turbinellum
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