Taxon: Symphyotrichum cordifolium (L.) G. L. Nesom

Common names:

• beeweed   (Source: Websters Dict [as Aster cordifolius]) – English
  
• blue wood aster   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Aster cordifolius]) – English
  
• common blue heart-leaf aster   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 [as Aster cordifolius]) – English
  
• heart-leaf aster   (Source: F Mich [as Aster cordifolius]) – English
  
• aster à feuilles cordées   (Source: Aster Ontario [as Aster cordifolius]) – French
  
• aster cordifolié   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• blaue Wald-Aster   (Source: Zander Ency [as Aster cordifolius]) – German
  
• hjärtaster   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Asters Gard Guide, as Aster cordifolius)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.w.], Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic

• also cultivated

References:

• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. [= Aster cordifolius].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= Aster cordifolius].
• Nesom, G. L. 1994. Review of the taxonomy of Aster sensu lato (Asteraceae: Astereae), emphasizing the New World species. Phytologia 77:278.
• Semple, J. C. et al. 1996. The Asters of Ontario (Compositae: Astereae): Diplactis Raf., Oclemena E. L. Greene, Doellingeria Nees and Aster. [= Aster cordifolius L.].
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [= Aster cordifolius].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Aster cordifolius].

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Aster cordifolius L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Symphyotrichum cordifolium (L.) G. L. Nesom:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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