Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum)

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	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 23 Oct 2009

	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009 Rare in North Carolina, this aster grows in woodlands with high pH soils over mafic rocks.
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009 Stems are mostly glabrous.
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009 Leaves are lanceolate-linear, narrow, nearly sessile, clasping to slightly auriculate.
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009
	Narrowleaf Smooth Aster (Aster concinnus, Symphyotrichum laeve var. concinnum) Edge gravel road in Duke Forest, Durham, NC 27 Sep 2009

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.