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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum parviceps
|accepted_authority=(E. S. Burgess) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 288. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Smallhead or small white aster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster ericoides var. parviceps
|authority=E. S. Burgess
|rank=variety
|publication_title=in N. L. Britton &amp; A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S.
|publication_place=3: 379. 1898
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster parviceps
|authority=(E. S. Burgess) Mackenzie & Bush
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster pilosus subsp. parviceps
|authority=(E. S. Burgess) A. G. Jones
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum parviceps
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum parviceps]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 467, 468, 500
|treatment_page=page 511
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>(sometimes short-lived), 30–100 cm, colonial or cespitose; long-rhizomatous or with short, branched caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–3+, ascending to erect (straight, slender, reddish), sparsely to densely pilosulous to hirtellous, proximally glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins strigoso-ciliate to scabrous, apices mucronulate, abaxial faces glabrate to sparsely pilose and midveins ± pilose to glabrate, adaxial glabrous or glabrate to pilosulous or hirsutulous; basal withering by flowering, subpetiolate, blades oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or spatulate, 10–40 × 3–7 mm, bases cuneate, sheathing, margins sparsely serrate apically, apices obtuse, mucronate, faces sparsely pilose; proximal cauline usually withering by flowering, sessile or subsessile (often with axillary clusters of small leaves), blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 40–80 × 2–5 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire or serrulate apically; distal sessile, blades linear to subulate, 4–100 × 1–6 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate, margins entire to weakly serrulate, faces glabrate or glabrous. <b>Heads</b> in narrow or wide, pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, branches ascending or arching, secondary branches (10 cm or less) secund and erect, densely leafy, heads crowded, sparsely to moderately pilose. <b>Peduncles</b> 3–20(–40) mm, glabrate or glabrous, bracts 3–6+, appressed or ascending, linear to subulate, 2–4 mm, scabrous, aristate, glabrous, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric to cylindro-campanulate, (2.7–)3.1–4.1(–4.9) × ± 3 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–5 series, appressed, subulate (outermost) to oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate (inner) or linear (innermost), unequal, bases indurate 1/2–3/4, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, sparsely ciliolate or not, green zones lanceolate, apices slightly spreading, often purplish, often involute, acute to acuminate or cuspidate, sometimes aristate, faces usually glabrous, sometimes glabrate. <b>Ray</b> florets (9–)11–17(–23); corollas usually white, seldom pink, laminae (3.7–)5–5.5(–7.3) × 0.6–1.3 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 5–16(–28); corollas pale yellow becoming purplish, (2.3–)2.5–3.3(–3.7) mm, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate, 0.4–0.8 (ratio 0.25) mm. <b>Cypselae</b> whitish or gray, obovoid, compressed, 0.8–1.5 × 0.4–0.6 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces sparsely to moderately strigillose; pappi white, 3–4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16, 32, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, dry, sandy, or loamy soils, open woods, barrens, prairies, fields, roadsides, old cemeteries
|elevation=200–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum parviceps
|authority=(E. S. Burgess) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster parviceps;Aster pilosus subsp. parviceps
|basionyms=Aster ericoides var. parviceps
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, dry, sandy, or loamy soils, open woods, barrens, prairies, fields, roadsides, old cemeteries
|elevation=200–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Mo.;Okla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum
|section=Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
|species=Symphyotrichum parviceps
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