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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Asteraceae
Aster furcatus E.S.Burgess
forked aster, midwestern white heart-leaved aster
Aster: from the Greek aster, "a star," describing the radiate heads of the flowers
furcatus: cleft or fork
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| Status: | Threatened |
| Plant: | perennial, 12"-32" tall forb; upper part of stems usually fuzzy; from colony-forming rhizomes |
| Flower: | head 1"-1 1/2" wide with 9-18 white rays becoming pinkish with age; inflorescence flat to round-topped branched cluster |
| Leaf: | thick, stiff, mostly hairy below, edges with tiny teeth; lower long-stalked, oval to elliptical with a heart-shaped base; upper lance-like, stalkless |
| Habitat: | rich woods |
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