Comments: In Floyd County, Georgia Aster ptarmicoides(Nees) Torrey & Gray georgianus Gray was first collected by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1809-1899), physician and botanist from Apalachicola, Florida.

Description:
Aster ptarmicoides Torr & Gray : "Smooth or scabrous; stems {6 inch - 15 inch (15.24 cm - 38.1 cm) high} simple; leaves linear-lanceolate, 1-3 nerved; heads small, in a flat corymb; scales of the involucre imbricated in 3 or 4 rows, short; rays white. - Northern States.

Var. Georgianus Gray. Taller {1.5 feet - 2 feet (46 cm- 61 cm) high}, and more slender, corymbosely branched above; lower leaves lanceolate, sparingly serrate; corymb larger and more loosely flowered; ray-flowers sterile, the style short or abortive.- Mountains of Georgia. September." -A.W.Chapman, 1884.

References :
Chapman, Alvan W. Flora of the southern United States: containing an abridged description of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida: arranged according to the natural system 2nd ed. New York: American Book Company, 1884: 626-627.
Harvard University Herbaria (http://www.huh.harvard.edu/ ), Cambridge, 22 Divinity Avenue, Massachusetts 02138, USA
USDA, NRCS. 2007. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2007 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Last updated on November 12, 2007.

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