Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Section: Common Name: Scientific Name: Family:
Account for Ontario Aster - Symphyotrichum ontarionis   (Wiegand) Nesom
Members of Asteraceae:
Members of Symphyotrichum with account distribution info or public map:
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Author(Wiegand) Nesom
DistributionThere are no specimens so-named in the SERNEC database, nor does Weakley (2018) indicate it as being found in NC. FNA does map it in NC, as does BONAP (but without a specific county). For now we will leave the map blank and consider it as not having been reliably recorded in NC.

Que. to MN and SD, south to GA, LA, TX.
AbundanceNo data
HabitatNo data. Elsewhere, it occurs in bottomlands.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting September-October.
IdentificationApparently closely similar to S. lateriflorus, which see, but with long creeping rhizomes, and stem uniformly spreading-pubescent. Leaves usually are uniformly pubescent beneath.
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Other Common Name(s)
State RankSR *
Global RankG5
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