DIVERSITY OF LIFE TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA
Symphyotrichum firmum(Nees) Nesom
Mitchell NYNYFA TCUSDA NY
no no == Symphyotrichum puniceum
Asteraceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Marly springy places; rare. Sept. Near Ludlowville, 1885 (collector unknown) ; moor of Lowery Ponds (L. F. Randolph, A. J. E., and K. M. W.). N. E. to Wis. and Ill. This plant is sufficiently distinct from A. puniceus in the characters given in the key to warrant its treatment as a species. In appearance it is quite unlike A. puniceus. Dudleys A. puniceus, var. laevicaulis, may be in part this species. His specimens in the Gray Herbarium from the two stations cited by him for this variety, Ludlowville and Montezuma, are both typical A. puniceus as here interpreted. However, a specimen in the C. U. Herbarium labeled Aster puniceus lucidulus Gray near Ludlowville, Oct. 2, 1885, but without the collectors name, is of the present species. It was probably collected by Dudley.


BH SPECIMENS FOR Symphyotrichum firmum (this list may be incomplete)
 Ithaca, near Ludlowville, 2 Oct 1885, Rowlee (BH 10795);
 Ithaca, Ludlowville railroad, north of station, 29 Oct 1888, Rowlee (BH 29215);
 Town of Ulysses, eastern border of Smith Woods, near Falls Road, in part sun, overall inflorescence compact, congested, inflorescence branches short, ascending, stem glabrous to pubescent in lines distally, mostly green, except for purple splotches in leaf axils, 9 Sep 2017, Tal 1189 (BH 123768);
 Town of Dryden,Townley Swamp, north of Bone Plain Road, west of Sheldon Road, wet swampy area, but in a very open canopy, 22 Sep 2005, Werier 2869 (BH 10794);   VEmap  GOOmap

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