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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Aster lateriflorus
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Aster lateriflorus
 AUTHORITY:  (L.) Britt.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SIDE-FLOWERED ASTER
    WHITE WOODLAND ASTER
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ASLA6
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         WET
       FLATWOODS
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         WET
     WETLAND
       SWAMP
       SEEP & SPRING
         TYPICAL SEEP
         ACID GRAVEL SEEP
       BORDER OF LAKE
     PRIMARY
       BLUFF
         CLIFF (ROCKY BLUFF)
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     CENTRAL
        Other Central Types
           River Birch - Sycamore
           Silver Maple - American Elm
     SOUTHERN
        Bottomland
 
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:
     Coastal Plain
        Cretaceous Hills
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOONE           BROWN           BUREAU
   CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   CLAY            CLINTON         COLES           COOK            DEKALB
   DEWITT          DUPAGE          EDGAR           EDWARDS         EFFINGHAM
   FAYETTE         FRANKLIN        FULTON          GREENE          GRUNDY
   HANCOCK         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        MADISON         MARSHALL        MASON           MASSAC
   MENARD          MONROE          MONTGOMERY      MOULTRIE        OGLE
   PEORIA          PERRY           PIATT           PIKE            POPE
   PULASKI         PUTNAM          RANDOLPH        RICHLAND        ST. CLAIR
   SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT           SHELBY
   STEPHENSON      TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION       WABASH
   WASHINGTON      WAYNE           WHITESIDE       WILL            WILLIAMSON
   WINNEBAGO       WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     Species can hybridize with several other asters.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Lanceolate     Obovate     Oval
    INFLORESCENCE:   Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Incomplete   Regular   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Violet   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 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 are perfect; ray florets are pistillate; both are
     fertile. Species has a branching caudex or short, stout rhizome.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in sloughs, bluff bases, and wet depressions. It can be
     very abundant along river and stream bottoms, in alluvial soil
     subject to periodic flooding.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   INSECT
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:
     FOOD VALUE:
         DEER VALUE:   -   Leaves
         UPLAND GAME VALUE:  Unknown
         WATERFOWL VALUE:  Unknown
         SMALL NON-GAME BIRD VALUE:  Unknown
         SMALL MAMMAL VALUE:  Unknown
         AQUATIC MAMMAL VALUE:  Unknown
         FISH VALUE:  Unknown
     COVER VALUE:  No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA:  No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK COMMENTS:
     Species is possible facultative selenium accumulator.
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Kingsbury, J. M.  1964.  Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
     Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.  626 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Aster lateriflorus
 
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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