Ampelaster
| Ampelaster | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Astereae |
| Genus: | Ampelaster G.L.Nesom |
| Species: | A. carolinianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G.L.Nesom | |
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Ampelaster is a North American genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
There is a single known species, Ampelaster carolinianus, known as climbing aster.[4] It is native to the southeastern United States, in the States of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.[1][5][6][7]
Ampelaster carolinianus is unusual in the family in that it is a climber, using other plants to support its weight. Sometimes it uses adventitious roots to this end. Flower heads are 1-15 per branch, with both ray florets and disc florets, the flowers pale pink to rose-purple.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Flora of North America, Vol. 20 Page 460, Climbing aster, Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G. L. Nesom, Phytologia. 77: 250. 1995.
- ↑ The Plant List Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G.L.Nesom
- ↑ Tropicos, Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G.L. Nesom
- ↑ "Plants Profile for Ampelaster carolinianus", Plants Database, USDA
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1981. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Dicotyledons 1–944. Univ. Georgia Press, Athens
- ↑ Long, R. W. & O. K. Lakela. 1971. A Flora of Tropical Florida: A Manual of the Seed Plants and Ferns of Southern Peninsular Florida i–xvii, 1–962. University of Miami Press, Coral Cables
External links
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas
- eNature field guide, Climbing Aster Ampelaster carolinianus (Aster carolinianus)
- University of Waterloo (Canada), Ampelaster The Climbing Aster
- JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University
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