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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum priceae
|accepted_authority=(Britton) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 290. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Price’s or lavender oldfield aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster priceae
|authority=Britton
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster kentuckiensis
|authority=Britton
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster pilosus var. priceae
|authority=(Britton) Cronquist
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum priceae
|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 priceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 476, 500, 512
|treatment_page=page 513
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–100 cm, cespitose; with short, branched caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–3+, decumbent to ascending (curved or straight, sometimes stout, green to reddish brown), glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> (dark green to bluish green) thin, apices acute to acuminate, mucronate, faces glabrate or glabrous; basal withering by flowering (vernal rosettes developed at flowering), petiolate or sessile (petioles winged, sheathing, ciliate), blades oblanceolate to obovate, 10–70 × 3–5 mm, bases cuneate to attenuate, margins entire or rarely sparsely serrate distally, apices obtuse to rounded, cuspidate; proximal cauline usually withering by flowering, petiolate or sessile (petioles narrowly winged, bases ± clasping), blades oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 70–105 × 2–4 cm, bases attenuate to cuneate, or ± auriculate, ± clasping; distal sessile, blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly subulate, 5–65 × 1–4 mm, progressively reduced distally, bases subauriculate, ± clasping, margins entire, with marginal cilia proximally, faces glabrous; reduced array leaves often in fascicles along branches, markedly 3-nerved. <b>Heads</b> in leafy, paniculiform to racemiform arrays, branches nearly divaricate to ascending, straight, sometimes secund, secondarily ramified, leafy with array leaves ± stiff, asscending to appressed. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.4–2 cm, mostly borne on secondary branches, glabrous, bracts 3–6, linear to subulate, stiff, distalmost sometimes surpassing involucres, glabrous. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, (4.5–)5.5–7.1(–8.5) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6 series, oblong-lanceolate to -oblanceolate to sometimes linear (innermost), unequal to subequal, bases indurate 1/4–2/3, margins narrowly scarious, erose, hyaline, sometimes sparsely ciliolate, green zones diamond-shaped to lanceolate, apices acute to long-acuminate, involute, spreading, mucronate to apiculate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets (13–)20–28(–34); corollas usually blue-violet, rarely white, laminae (7–)9–15(–19) × 0.6–2.1 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets (28–)33–51(–68); corollas yellow turning brown, 3.4–4.6(–5.5) mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to brown, obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2.1 mm, 4–5-nerved (thin), faces sparsely strigillose; pappi white, 3–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Broken limestone pavements of cedar glades, limestone disturbed roadsides
|elevation=200–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Symphyotrichum priceae blooms earlier than S. pilosum var. pilosum.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum priceae
|author=
|authority=(Britton) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster kentuckiensis;Aster pilosus var. priceae
|basionyms=Aster priceae
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Broken limestone pavements of cedar glades, limestone disturbed roadsides
|elevation=200–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;Ky.;Tenn.
|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 priceae
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