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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum jessicae
|accepted_authority=(Piper) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 283. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Jessica’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster jessicae
|authority=Piper
|rank=species
|publication_title=Erythea
|publication_place=6: 30. 1898
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales;Symphyotrichum jessicae
|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. Occidentales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum jessicae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 472, 535, 537
|treatment_page=page 536
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 40–150 cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, ascending to erect, densely puberulent to lanate, especially distally. <b>Leaves</b> thickish, margins entire or shallowly crenate, apices acute to ± obtuse, faces densely lanate-puberulent; basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades obovate to elliptic, 30–150 × 10–40 mm, bases cuneate to rounded, margins entire, ciliolate, apices acute, faces densely cinereous to lanate; proximalmost cauline sometimes withering by flowering, subpetiolate or sessile, blades obovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 50–100 × 10–25(–35) mm, bases cuneate, clasping, ± auriculate, apices usually acute; distal sessile, blades 20–60(–80) × 9–16(–20) mm, bases rounded to auriculate. <b>Heads</b> in paniculiform, very leafy arrays, branches 4–10(–20) cm. <b>Peduncles</b> densely lanate, bracts 1–8, elliptic, margins ciliolate, apices acute, puberulent. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 6–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6 series, oblanceolate (outer) to linear (inner), unequal, bases scarious (outer sometimes foliaceous), margins slightly scarious, entire, green zones obovate to elliptic, apices acute, faces densely lanate to cinereous. <b>Ray</b> florets 18–40; corollas violet, laminae (8–)12–20 × 1–2(–2.5) mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 35–80+; corollas yellow, 6–9 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3.5–4.5 mm, 4–5-nerved, faces sparsely hairy; pappi tawny, (6–)7–9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, meadows, stream banks, openings in Ponderosa pine woodlands
|elevation=500–1200 m
|distribution=Idaho;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Symphyotrichum jessicae</i> is known only from the Palouse and Clearwater river drainages of eastern Washington and adjacent northwestern Idaho.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum jessicae
|authority=(Piper) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster jessicae
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Dry grasslands, meadows, stream banks, openings in Ponderosa pine woodlands
|elevation=500–1200 m
|distribution=Idaho;Wash.
|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. Occidentales
|species=Symphyotrichum jessicae
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