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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Aster ericoides
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Aster ericoides
 AUTHORITY:  L.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    HEATH ASTER
    WREATH ASTER
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ASER3
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         DRY
     SAVANNA
     PRIMARY
       GLADE
         LIMESTONE
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
         PASTURELAND
       DEVELOPED LAND
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOONE           BUREAU          CALHOUN         CARROLL
   CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLINTON         COLES
   COOK            CUMBERLAND      DEKALB          DEWITT          DUPAGE
   EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FORD            FULTON          GRUNDY
   HAMILTON        HARDIN          HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS
   JACKSON         JASPER          JEFFERSON       JERSEY          JO DAVIESS
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX
   LAKE            LASALLE         LAWRENCE        LEE             LIVINGSTON
   LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MCLEAN          MACON
   MACOUPIN        MARION          MARSHALL        MASON           MENARD
   MONROE          MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA          PERRY
   PIATT           PIKE            POPE            PULASKI         RANDOLPH
   RICHLAND        ST. CLAIR       SANGAMON        SCOTT           SHELBY
   STEPHENSON      UNION           VERMILION       WARREN          WASHINGTON
   WAYNE           WHITESIDE       WILL            WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO
 
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     The species hybridizes with Aster pilosus.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Oblong
    INFLORESCENCE:   Panicle  Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Very rarely, ray florets might be blue or rose.  Versus var. prostratus, this
     variety has stem pubescence mostly appressed or closely ascending.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      7         MONTH END-     10
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Perfect     Unisexual   -monoecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Disk florets perfect and fertile, ray florets pistillate and fertile.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Roadsides; railroads; rocky open woods.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:  No data entered
 
     HABITAT:   Dry
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   INSECT
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK COMMENTS:
     A definite facultative selenium accumulator.
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Economic
 
 
 GENERAL COMMENTS:
     Listed as non-weedy in PIN.
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1986.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Revised and enlarged edition.  Southern Illinois University Press,
     Carbondale.  507 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Aster ericoides
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015