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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum walteri
|accepted_authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 294. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Walter’s aster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster walteri
|authority=Alexander
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. K. Small, Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication_place=1382, 1509. 1933,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lasallea walteri
|authority=(Alexander) Semple & Brouillet
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus walteri
|authority=(Alexander) Reveal & Keener
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum walteri
|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. Virgulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum walteri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 472, 474, 483
|treatment_page=page 492
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 20–100 cm, colonial or cespitose, eglandular, sometimes sparsely, minutely stipitate-glandular; long-rhizomatous, with erect, thick, ± cormoid, woody caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect to scandent-sprawling (mid to dark brown, branched from middle), glabrous or very sparsely fine strigose. <b>Leaves</b> (bright green) thick, firm, ± succulent, margins entire; basal early deciduous, sessile, blades (3-nerved) oblanceolate to obovate, 10–43 × 7–15 mm, bases cuneate, margins scabrous, apices obtuse, mucronate, faces sparsely finely scabrous; proximal cauline sessile (patent to reflexed), blades ovate to lanceolate, 8–30 × 2–10 mm, bases cordate-clasping, apices acute, sometimes spinulose, faces finely scabrous, shiny; distal sessile, blades lanceolate to triangular, 5–15 × 2.5–3.5 mm, reduced to bracts distally, bases clasping, margins finely scabrous, apices acute, white-spinulose, faces finely scabrous. <b>Heads</b> borne singly in diffusely paniculiform arrays, branches initially patent to divaricate, elongate. <b>Peduncles</b> glabrous, bracts relatively numerous, tiny, foliaceous, becoming minute, linear, glabrous. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, oblanceolate, strongly unequal, bases (tan) ± indurate, margins hyaline, finely scabrous, green zones diamond-shaped, in distal 1/4–1/2, apices obtuse, mucronate to finely subspinulose, innermost acuminate, faces sparsely strigillose (often obscured by thick, shiny cuticle). <b>Ray</b> florets 11–26; corollas bluish purple, laminae 5–9(–11) × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets (6–)15–25(–30); corollas yellow, 4–6.5 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes triangular, 0.4–0.8 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to brown, obovoid, not compressed, 2–2.5 mm, nerves very faint, faces sparsely to moderately strigose; pappi tan, 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Sandy, clayey soils, margins of woods, open oak-pine scrub, pine flatwoods, fields, roadsides
|elevation=0–100+ m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
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|references=
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name=Symphyotrichum walteri
|authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Lasallea walteri;Virgulus walteri
|basionyms=Aster walteri
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Sandy, clayey soils, margins of woods, open oak-pine scrub, pine flatwoods, fields, roadsides
|elevation=0–100+ m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum walteri
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