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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum frondosum
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 282. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Short-rayed alkali aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tripolium frondosum
|authority=Nuttall
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster frondosus
|authority=(Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachyactis frondosa
|authority=(Nuttall) A. Gray
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Conyzopsis;Symphyotrichum frondosum
|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. Conyzopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum frondosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 465, 467
|treatment_page=page 499
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or sometimes perennials, 5–140 cm. <b>Stems</b> 1–6+, decumbent to erect (straight), glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins entire (basal sometimes serrulate), sometimes ciliate or remotely scabrous, acute to ± obtuse, faces glabrous; basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 20–115 × 2–15 mm [cult.], bases attenuate; proximal cauline withering by flowering; cauline subpetiolate or sessile (distal), blades oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 × 1.5–10 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate. <b>Heads</b> (radiate) in narrow, paniculiform to spiciform arrays, branches often in axils of nearly every leaf, ascending. <b>Peduncles</b> glabrous, bracts linear. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly campanulate, 5–9 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, ± spreading, oblong-oblanceolate or -lanceolate to obovate, subequal to ± unequal, linear-lanceolate or linear (innermost), bases scarious, margins narrowly scarious, hyaline, erose, ciliolate, green zones (outer) foliaceous, (inner) lanceolate, apices obtuse to rounded, inner acute, mucronulate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 90–110 in 4–5+ series; corollas pink to pinkish white, laminae 1.5–2 × 0.1–0.2 mm (surpassing style branches, barely surpassing disc corollas; tubes ± 3 mm). <b>Disc</b> florets ± 37; corollas yellow, 4.4–5.2 mm, barely ampliate, tubes much longer than cylindric limbs, lobes lanceolate, ± 0.3 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, obovoid, ± compressed, 2 mm, 2–3-nerved, faces strigillose; pappi white to yellowish, 6.3–7.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, usually saline soils, summer-receding shores of lakes or ponds, vernally moist, alkaline bottoms, marshes, often in steppes
|elevation=10–2200 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Baja California).
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name=Symphyotrichum frondosum
|author=
|authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster frondosus;Brachyactis frondosa
|basionyms=Tripolium frondosum
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, usually saline soils, summer-receding shores of lakes or ponds, vernally moist, alkaline bottoms, marshes, often in steppes
|elevation=10–2200 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Baja California).
|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. Conyzopsis
|species=Symphyotrichum frondosum
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