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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum fontinale
|accepted_authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 287. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Florida water aster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster fontialis
|authority=Alexander
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. K. Small, Man. S.E. Fl.,
|publication_place=1382, 1509. 1933
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster patens var. floridanus
|authority=R. W. Long
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum fontinale
|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 fontinale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 472
|treatment_page=page 487
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–90 cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, erect (light to reddish brown, straight, sometimes stout), proximally moderately to densely hispidulo-strigillose, sometimes glabrescent, distally moderately to densely hispidulo-strigillose, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> (green to dark green) firm, margins entire, faces sparsely to moderately strigoso-scabrous, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular; basal absent at flowering, sessile, blades (3-nerved) oblanceolate to obovate, 25–40 × 12–15 mm, bases attenuate, margins entire (remotely serrate), scabrous, apices obtuse, short-mucronate; proximal cauline usually withering by flowering, sessile, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 25–80 × 5–18 mm, bases rounded or narrowly auriculate-clasping, margins distally shallowly serrate to subentire, scabrellous, apices spinulose-mucronate; distal sessile, blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–50 × 2–10 mm, reduced distally and becoming bractlike (arrays), bases subclasping to (distally) rounded, margins scabrous, apices acute to white-mucronulate or -subspinulose, faces sometimes shiny, minutely gland-dotted. <b>Heads</b> (4–400) in wide to narrow, paniculiform arrays, branches ascending to widely spreading (well-developed), densely small-leaved. <b>Peduncles</b> ascending (secund in well-developed arrays?), 0.3–4.5 cm, densely strigoso-hirsute, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular, bracts dense, spreading or reflexed (rarely ascending), narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, mostly ca. 3 × 1 mm, spinulose, sparsely to moderately strigilloso-scabrous, sometimes sparsely minutely stipitate-glandular, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, 6–7.6 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series (appressed), oblong or oblanceolate (outer) to linear-oblanceolate (innermost), unequal, bases indurate, margins hyaline, scarious, erose, ciliate or ciliolate, and/or sometimes stipitate-glandular, often reddish distally, green zones elliptic (outer) to lanceolate, apices erect, acute to acuminate, mucronulate to apiculate (inner), often tinged red-purplish, faces glabrous or glabrate. <b>Ray</b> florets 15–30; corollas purplish-blue to lavender, laminae 7–13 × 0.8–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 19-25; corollas cream to pale yellow turning reddish purple, sometimes also brownish, 5.2–6 mm, tubes slightly shorter than funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate to triangular, 0.8–1.2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, obovoid-fusiform, slightly compressed, 1.9–2.3 mm, 4–5-nerved (golden bronze), faces sparsely strigillose to glabrescent; pappi sordid, 5–6.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Nov–Dec.
|habitat=Moist, sometimes peaty soils, marshes, sandhills, hammocks, flood plains, ditch banks, rocky bluffs along streams
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Symphyotrichum fontinale</i> has been considered to be conspecific with <i>S. patens</i> or <i>S. dumosum</i> of subg. <i>Symphyotrichum</i> (A. Cronquist 1980). It fits well into sect. Grandiflori of subg. Virgulus.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum fontinale
|authority=(Alexander) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Aster patens var. floridanus
|basionyms=Aster fontialis
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Nov–Dec.
|habitat=Moist, sometimes peaty soils, marshes, sandhills, hammocks, flood plains, ditch banks, rocky bluffs along streams
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_1094.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum fontinale
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