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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Canadanthus modestus
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 251. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Great northern or western bog aster;aster modeste
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster modestus
|authority=Lindley
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster major
|authority=(Hooker) Porter
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster modestus var. major
|authority=(Hooker) Muenscher
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster sayianus
|authority=Lessing ex Bongard
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster unalaschensis var. major
|authority=Hooker
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Weberaster modestus
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Canadanthus;Canadanthus modestus
|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>[[Canadanthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Canadanthus modestus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 488
|treatment_page=page 459
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>openly colonial; rhizomes 1–3+ from base of each stem, herbaceous, ± woody with age. <b>Stems</b> 1, often glabrate proximally to ± villous, distally stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal scalelike, withering by flowering; blades (16–)50–130 × (4–)10–30(–40) mm, reduced distally, thin, bases auriculate-clasping, margins ± scabrous to (distal) stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> (1–)2–40+. <b>Peduncles</b> sometimes villous, densely stipitate-glandular; bracts 1–2(–3), linear-lanceolate, stipitate-glandular. <b>Phyllaries</b> squarrose, innermost appressed, apices often ± purplish, acuminate. <b>Ray</b> floret laminae 7–11(–15) × 0.8–1.2 mm. <b>Disc</b> floret corollas 5–7 mm, glabrous, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> stramineous, stipitate; pappi surpassing or ± equaling disc corollas. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=Cold, wet soils, often ± calcareous, moist woodlands, often along streams, lake shores, alder thickets, open fields, cedar swamps, in montane and boreal forests
|elevation=0–1300+ m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Sask.;Yukon;Que.;Alaska;Idaho;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;Wash.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Canadanthus modestus
|author=
|authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aster major;Aster modestus var. major;Aster sayianus;Aster unalaschensis var. major;Weberaster modestus
|basionyms=Aster modestus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=Cold, wet soils, often ± calcareous, moist woodlands, often along streams, lake shores, alder thickets, open fields, cedar swamps, in montane and boreal forests
|elevation=0–1300+ m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Sask.;Yukon;Que.;Alaska;Idaho;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Canadanthus
|species=Canadanthus modestus
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