Index / Search / Symphyotrichum subulatum
§1 Plant
Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L. Nesom
vernacular eastern annual saltmarsh aster — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Symphyotrichum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 148 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 190 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–7
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 700,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 148 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Cleveland 05025
- Conway 05029
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lafayette 05073
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Phillips 05107
- Pike 05109
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Woodruff 05147
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Richmond 51159
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SYSU5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3094253 ↗Record version
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