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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum plumosum
|accepted_authority=(Small) Semple in J. C. Semple et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. C. Semple et al., Cult. Native Asters Ontario,
|place=134. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster plumosus
|authority=Small
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Symphyotrichum concolor var. plumosum
|authority=(Small) Wunderlin & B. F. Hansen
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum plumosum
|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 plumosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 473, 475, 483
|treatment_page=page 493
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 40–100 cm, cespitose, eglandular; with cormoid, woody caudices. <b>Stems</b> 5–10+, erect or arching (light to dark brown), proximally sparsely to moderately finely woolly-pilose (hairs spreading to ascending), more densely so distally. <b>Leaves</b> (grayish) soft; basal withering by flowering, sessile, blades (1–3-nerved) elliptic-lanceolate, 20–40 × 10–20 mm, bases attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely remotely serrate, piloso-ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, faces silvery piloso-silky; proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades oblanceolate, 20–30 × 4–8 mm, bases rounded, subclasping, margins entire, scabrous to silky-piloso-ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, cuspidate-mucronate, faces moderately strigillose; distal sessile, blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 8–15 × 2.5–5 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, mucronate, faces moderately, finely lanoso-strigose. <b>Heads</b> radiate, in narrow, paniculiform (wand-shaped) to sometimes compact, racemiform arrays (1(–3) per branch). <b>Peduncles</b> densely hairy, bracts linear, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 7–9 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, spreading to reflexed, linear, unequal, bases (tan) ± indurate, margins scarious proximally, green distally, green zones foliaceous, apices acute, faces moderately woolly-strigose. <b>Ray</b> florets 7–12; corollas rose-purple, laminae 6–9 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 14–20; corollas pink turning purple, 5–6 mm, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats (thinly puberulent), lobes triangular, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> fusiform-obovoid, not compressed, 2–3 mm, 6–8-nerved, faces densely strigose; pappi tan to yellowish tan, (5.5–)6.5–8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Nov.
|habitat=Deep, dry to moist, sandy soils, pine flatwoods, pine-scrub oak woods, favored by fires and clearcuts
|elevation=0–40 m
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>Symphyotrichum plumosum is known only from Franklin County. It differs from S. concolor var. concolor in its long-acuminate, recurved to reflexed phyllaries. No intermediates with S. concolor were seen in the field.</p>
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name=Symphyotrichum plumosum
|author=
|authority=(Small) Semple in J. C. Semple et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Symphyotrichum concolor var. plumosum
|basionyms=Aster plumosus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Nov.
|habitat=Deep, dry to moist, sandy soils, pine flatwoods, pine-scrub oak woods, favored by fires and clearcuts
|elevation=0–40 m
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. C. Semple et al., Cult. Native Asters Ontario,
|publication year=2002
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum plumosum
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