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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Asteraceae
Aster dumosus L. var. strictior Torr. & A.Gray
bushy aster, long-stalked aster, rice-button aster
Aster: from the Greek aster, "a star," describing the radiate heads of the flowers
dumosus: full of thorn bushes, bushy
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall forb; usually with creeping rhizomes |
| Flower: | head 1/3"-3/4" wide, long stalked, with 13-30 pale purple to white rays; inflorescence large, open, many-branched clusters with oblong bracts |
| Leaf: | mostly along the stem, linear to lance-like, stalkless, mostly entire, hairless below |
| Habitat: | dry, moist; in sandy soil |
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