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Last updated 11/21/2020 by David Giblin.
Symphyotrichum ericoides (L.) G.L. Nesom var. pansum (S.F. Blake) G.L. Nesom[FNA20, HC2]
little gray aster, tufted white prairie aster, white heath aster

Publication: Phytologia. 77: 280. 1995.

Origin: Native

selected vouchers: WTU

Notes: FNA21: "Variety pansum is reported to be rare in extreme western Kansas and Ontario (where it is introduced), extreme northeastern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico. It has been introduced along railroads farther east. A. G. Jones (1978) treated this taxon as a subspecies with two varieties. Plants forming clumps with many, erect to arching, stout, usually densely hispido-strigose stems were called var. pansum; these occur mostly in British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Plants in clusters with few, decumbent or ascending, slender, usually sparsely strigose stems were recognized by Jones as var. stricticaule; these are encountered mostly on the prairies and in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains from Alberta to Manitoba, Utah, and Wyoming."

References: (none)

Synonyms & Misapplied Names:
Aster ericoides L. ssp. pansus (S.F. Blake) A.G. Jones
Aster ericoides L. var. pansus (S.F. Blake) B. Boivin
Aster pansus (S.F. Blake) Cronquist[HC]