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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Ampelaster
|accepted_authority=G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 250. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster sect. Sagittiferi
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=section
|publication_title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1(2): 179. 1884
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster sect. Caroliniani
|authority=Small
|rank=section
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lasallea subsect. Carolinianae
|authority=(Small) Semple & Brouillet
|rank=subsection
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus sect. Sagittiferi
|authority=(A. Gray) Reveal & Keener
|rank=section
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ampelaster
|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>[[Ampelaster]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ampelos, vine, alluding to habit, and generic name Aster
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 5, 458, 459, 466
|treatment_page=page 460
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 100–400 cm (clambering, sprawling, or vinelike, deciduous or evergreen by production of new growth; sometimes clonal by adventitious roots on branches in contact with soil, these becoming separated). <b>Stems</b> scandent, widely and diffusely branched, sparsely to densely short-pilose or hirsute, especially distally, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; sessile; blades 1-nerved, elliptic or oblanceolate to lanceolate or ovate, margins entire, faces sparsely to moderately pilose. <b>Heads</b> radiate, in paniculiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> turbino-campanulate, 8–12 × 8.5–21 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 30–50, in 5–6 series, spreading to reflexed, 1-nerved (midnerves ± raised, especially proximally, ± translucent yellow-brown to golden brown, less prominent distally; ± flat), outer linear-lanceolate to spatulate, inner linear-attenuate, strongly unequal, proximally whitish, herbaceous distally (green zone restricted to apical 1/4 or less), margins hyaline proximally (sometimes reddish), abaxial faces sparsely to moderately pilose. <b>Receptacles</b> flat to slightly rounded, pitted (margins irregular), epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 30–50(–70), pistillate, fertile; corollas pale rose-purple to pale pink. <b>Disc</b> florets 30–50, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow becoming rose-purple, weakly ampliate, tubes shorter than narrowly cylindro-campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect, triangular; style-branch appendages narrowly triangular. <b>Cypselae</b> narrowly cylindric to fusiform, not compressed, 9–12-ribbed (whitish, raised), faces glabrous; pappi persistent, of 30–45, light stramineous to faintly rust-orange, barbellate bristles in 2(–3) series (outermost of 0–5 midlength attenuate bristles, outer of long, distally attenuate ones, slightly shorter than inner weakly clavate ones). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ampelaster
|author=John C. Semple
|authority=G. L. Nesom
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Aster sect. Caroliniani;Lasallea subsect. Carolinianae;Virgulus sect. Sagittiferi
|basionyms=Aster sect. Sagittiferi
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ampelaster
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