WHITE ASTER
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Chaetopappa ericoides (Torr. ) G.L. Nesom
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| [=Leucelene ericoides (Torr. ) Greene] |
| Smoky Valley Ranch, Logan County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 2 - 8 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Also Called: | | Baby-white aster, rose heath aster. | | Stems: | | Erect or spreading, slender, numerous, loosely clustered, branched, stiff-hairy. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple, sessile, spatulate below to linear above, up to 3/5 inch long, less than 1/10 inch wide, ascending or pressed against stem, thick; margins entire, often fringed with hairs; uppermost leaves bract-like. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads, solitary, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Heads 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide; bracts lanceolate, in 4-7 series, overlapping; ray florets 12-24, less than 1/4 inch long, white, drying pale rose; tips sometimes curled under; disk florets several, yellow. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, small, flattened, hairy, tipped with numerous rough, white, hair-like bristles, enclosing small seed. | | Habitat: | | Dry open, sandy or gravelly sites and rocky, eroded hillsides. | | Distribution: | | West half of Kansas. | | Uses: | | Native Americans in the Southwest used white aster medicinally to treat snakebites, nose ailments, toothaches, rheumatism, and swellings. | | Comments: | | White aster forms low patches from creeping roots. |
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| Babywhite aster |  | | 165 KB | | Smoky Valley Ranch, Logan County, Kansas |
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