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|accepted_name=Eurybia conspicua
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 259. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Western showy aster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster conspicuus
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
|publication_title=in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=2: 7. 1834
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Eurybia;Eurybia conspicua
|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>[[Eurybia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eurybia conspicua]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 366, 367, 369
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>30–100 cm; forming loose clones, short-stipitate-glandular; rhizomes long to short, woody. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, seldom branched proximally, stout, proximally glabrate to villous and sparsely glandular (sometimes to base), distally glabrate, strongly glandular. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, thick, ample, bases clasping, margins ± revolute, sharply serrate (rarely subentire) with ± mucronate teeth, veins prominent, apices acute to acuminate, mucronate, faces scabrous, adaxial veins villous; proximal cauline deciduous by flowering, winged-subpetiolate to sessile, blades oblanceolate to ovate or obovate, smaller than mid, bases tapering; mid usually sessile, sometimes subsessile, obovate or elliptic, (40–)58–140(–180) × (8–)20–50(–80) mm, bases cuneate to mostly rounded-subauriculate; distal (in arrays) sessile, ovate to oblanceolate, lanceolate, or elliptic, (8–)10–60(–90) × 2–28(–40) mm, strongly reduced distally. <b>Heads</b> 5–50 in open corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> sometimes sparsely hairy, stipitate-glandular; bracts usually 0, sometimes 1–3. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 9–12 mm, shorter than pappi. <b>Phyllaries</b> 34–55 in 4–5 series, midnerves translucent, strongly unequal, membranous, bases indurate, dark green distally, margins densely ciliate, apices spreading or ± squarrose, purple (mucro), acute or acuminate (sometimes mucronate), faces glabrous, densely stipitate-glandular; outer ovate or lanceolate; inner oblong-lanceolate, margins hyaline, often purplish distally, scarious. <b>Ray</b> florets 12–35; corollas blue or violet, (8–)10–15 × 1.2–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 48–55; corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, slightly ampliate, tubes narrowly cylindric, slightly longer than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes erect, lanceolate, 0.7–1.3 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, fusiform, ± compressed, 3–4 mm, ribs 8–10, appressed-setose; pappi of cinnamon to pinkish bristles 9–10 mm, about as long as disc corollas. <b>2n</b> = ca. 108, ca. 122.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open, mesic conifer (spruce-fir, pine, or aspen-conifer) or aspen woods, from foothills to upper montane zone, mesic to dry meadows, forest openings, in somewhat clayey soils, adapted to spring fires
|elevation=300–2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Sask.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Eurybia conspicua</i> is a western boreo-montane taxon; it ranges from the Interior Mountains and Plateaus to the Rocky Mountains, and spreads onto the northern Great Plains in the aspen parklands-southern boreal forests of Canada, barely into western Manitoba. It is disjunct to the Black Hills (South Dakota) and Cypress Hills (Alberta-Saskatchewan). It stops at the Canadian Shield due to soil preferences (A. J. Breitung 1988). This taxon has the highest chromosome number in the genus.</p>
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name=Eurybia conspicua
|authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster conspicuus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open, mesic conifer (spruce-fir, pine, or aspen-conifer) or aspen woods, from foothills to upper montane zone, mesic to dry meadows, forest openings, in somewhat clayey soils, adapted to spring fires
|elevation=300–2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Sask.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Eurybia
|species=Eurybia conspicua
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