General: Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, creeping rhizome; stems erect to ascending, branched and short-hairy above, 30-60 cm tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves usually deciduous; stem leaves linear, unstalked, entire, usually stiff-hairy.
Flowers: Heads with ray and disk flowers, several to many, solitary at the end of the branchlets, in racemes on the stem or branches; involucres 5-8 mm tall; involucral bracts graduated, linear-oblong to linear or the outer spoon-shaped with a whitish base, obtuse to abruptly sharp-pointed, the tips often loose, stiff-hairy and usually hairy on the backs; ray flowers 20-35, white, rarely pale pinkish or purplish-tinged, 5-10 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
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Ecological Framework for Symphyotrichum falcatum var. falcatum
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
Mesic to dry grasslands, rocky slopes, disturbed areas and open forests in the steppe and montane zones; frequent in SC and SE BC, rare in NE BC; N to AK, YT and NT, E to SK and S to NM, AZ and WA.
