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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Aster ericoides prostratus
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Aster ericoides prostratus
 AUTHORITY:  L.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    HEATH ASTER
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ASERP
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
     PRAIRIE
     CULTURAL
       DEVELOPED LAND
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOND            BOONE           BROWN           CALHOUN
   CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLAY
   CLINTON         COLES           COOK            CUMBERLAND      DEKALB
   DEWITT          DUPAGE          EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FORD
   GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HENDERSON       HENRY
   IROQUOIS        JACKSON         JEFFERSON       JERSEY          JO DAVIESS
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        LAKE            LASALLE
   LEE             LIVINGSTON      LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY
   MCLEAN          MACON           MACOUPIN        MADISON         MARION
   MARSHALL        MASON           MENARD          MERCER          MONROE
   MONTGOMERY      MORGAN          MOULTRIE        OGLE            PERRY
   PIATT           PIKE            POPE            RANDOLPH        RICHLAND
   ROCK ISLAND     ST. CLAIR       SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT
   SHELBY          STARK           STEPHENSON      TAZEWELL        UNION
   VERMILION       WASHINGTON      WAYNE           WHITESIDE       WILL
   WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Oblong
    INFLORESCENCE:   Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Rays rarely blue or pink, versus typical variety, this variety has reflexed or
     spreading stem pubescence.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Common
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      9         MONTH END-     10
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Perfect     Unisexual   -monoecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Disk florets perfect, ray florets pistillate, both fertile.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Roadsides; railroads; rocky open woods.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   INSECT
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK COMMENTS:
     A possible facultative selenium accumulator.
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 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 prostratus
 
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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