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|accepted_name=Eurybia saxicastelli
|accepted_authority=(J. J. N. Campbell & Medley) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 261. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Rockcastle aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster saxicastelli
|authority=J. J. N. Campbell & Medley
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sida
|publication_place=13: 277, figs. 1, 2. 1989 (as saxicastellii)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Eurybia;Eurybia saxicastelli
|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 saxicastelli]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 366, 367
|treatment_page=page 372
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>40–120 cm; in clones; rhizomes elongate, strong. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, strict (slightly flexuous distally), simple, glabrous, distally ± villosulous (arrays). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; proximal withering by flowering, narrowly winged-petiolate, blades broadly oblanceolate or elliptic to obovate, smaller than mid; mid and distal winged-petiolate (5–30 mm), broadly elliptic to oblanceolate, (70–)90–140 × 40–50(–60) mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate, with 4–5 pairs of marked veins, margins coarsely serrate (teeth 1–4 mm), slightly revolute, scabrous, apices acuminate; abaxial faces glabrescent, adaxial sparsely pilose, mainly on veins. <b>Heads</b> 1–10, borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> sparsely pilose; bracts 0–1, foliaceous, remotely serrulate. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 7–11 mm, shorter than pappi. <b>Phyllaries</b> 32–36 in 4–5 series, broadly oblong, strongly unequal, scarious, dark green zones wide, from 1/2 distally, margins hyaline, narrow, erose, densely ciliate, apices appressed or often slightly squarrose, obtuse to subacute, faces glabrous, eglandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 10–30; corollas pale white to pale blue, 10–15 × 1.5–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 10–20; corollas yellow turning pinkish, ca. 4.5–5 mm, tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes spreading, triangular, ca. 1.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, fusiform, cylindric, 5–6 mm, ribs 7–11, stramineous, faces ± strigose; pappi of pale stramineous (clavate) bristles 5–7 mm, shorter than to ± equaling disc corollas. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Back edge of spring-flooded, summer-dry, sandstone boulder–cobble river bars with shrubby vegetation
|elevation=(600–)1000–1500 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Eurybia saxicastelli</i> is known only from the Rockcastle River of Kentucky (J. J. N. Campbell and M. E. Medley 1989) and Tennessee.</p>
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name=Eurybia saxicastelli
|authority=(J. J. N. Campbell & Medley) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster saxicastelli
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Back edge of spring-flooded, summer-dry, sandstone boulder–cobble river bars with shrubby vegetation
|elevation=(600–)1000–1500 m
|distribution=Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Eurybia
|species=Eurybia saxicastelli
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