- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Aster L.

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Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs with tuberous roots or woody rhizomes, rarely annual herbs or small shrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, entire or dentate-pinnatifid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula heterogamous, usually radiate, few–many-flowered, solitary or in corymbs; phyllaries 3–4(–5)-seriate, imbricate, the outer shorter than the inner
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Ray florets female, usually 1-seriate, sometimes with staminodes; central flowers hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-lobed, anthers linear, obtuse at the base, with a lanceolate appendage at the apex, style bifid with linear branches
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes ellipsoid or obovoid, slightly compressed, pubescent and glandular; pappus of many usually unequal bristles, rarely double with an outer row of scale-like bristles.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hainan, Hungary, Idaho, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Laos, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Ontario, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
Introduced into:
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Northwest European R, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Tennessee, West Virginia
- Aster ageratoides Turcz.
- Aster aitchisonii Boiss.
- Aster alatipes Hemsl.
- Aster albescens (DC.) Wall. ex Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster alpinus L.
- Aster altaicus Willd.
- Aster amellus L.
- Aster arenarius (Kitam.) Nemoto
- Aster argyropholis Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster asagrayi
- Aster asteroides (DC.) Kuntze
- Aster auriculatus Franch.
- Aster baccharoides Steetz
- Aster barbellatus Grierson
- Aster batangensis Bureau & Franch.
- Aster bellidiastrum Scop.
- Aster biennis Ledeb.
- Aster bietii Franch.
- Aster bipinnatisectus Ludlow ex Grierson
- Aster boweri Hemsl.
- Aster brachytrichus Franch.
- Aster brevicaulis W.P.Li
- Aster brevis Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster bulleyanus Jeffrey
- Aster chingshuiensis Y.C.Liu & C.H.Ou
- Aster crenatifolius Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster dianchuanensis J.W.Xiao & W.P.Li
- Aster dimorphophyllus Franch. & Sav.
- Aster diplostephioides (DC.) Benth. ex C.B.Clarke
- Aster dolichophyllus Y.Ling
- Aster dolichopodus Y.Ling
- Aster eligulatus (Y.Ling ex Y.L.Chen, S.Yun Liang & K.Y.Pan) Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster eremophilus Bunge
- Aster falconeri (C.B.Clarke) Hutch.
- Aster fanjingshanicus Y.L.Chen & D.J.Liu
- Aster farreri W.W.Sm. & Jeffrey
- Aster filipes J.Q.Fu
- Aster flaccidus Bunge
- Aster formosanus Hayata
- Aster fulgidulus Grierson
- Aster fuscescens Bureau & Franch.
- Aster giraldii Diels
- Aster glehnii F.Schmidt
- Aster gouldii C.E.C.Fisch.
- Aster gracilicaulis Ling ex J.Q.Fu
- Aster × handelii Onno
- Aster hayatae H.Lév. & Vaniot
- Aster helenae Merr.
- Aster heliopsis Grierson
- Aster hersileoides C.K.Schneid.
- Aster heterolepis Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster himalaicus C.B.Clarke
- Aster hispidus Thunb.
- Aster hololachnus Y.Ling ex Y.L.Chen, S.Yun Liang & K.Y.Pan
- Aster homochlamydeus Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster huangpingensis W.P.Li & Zhi Li
- Aster hunanensis Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster hypoleucus Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster iinumae Kitam.
- Aster incisus Fisch.
- Aster indamellus Grierson
- Aster indicus L.
- Aster ionoglossus Y.Ling ex Y.L.Chen, S.Yun Liang & K.Y.Pan
- Aster itsunboshi Kitam.
- Aster jeffreyanus Diels
- Aster kanoi S.W.Chung, W.J.Huang & T.C.Hsu
- Aster kantoensis Kitam.
- Aster komonoensis Makino
- Aster koraiensis Nakai
- Aster langaoensis J.Q.Fu
- Aster latibracteatus Franch.
- Aster lautureanus (Debeaux) Franch.
- Aster lavandulifolius Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster likiangensis Franch.
- Aster limosus Hemsl.
- Aster lingii G.J.Zhang & T.G.Gao
- Aster lingulatus Franch.
- Aster lipskii Kom.
- Aster lixianensis (J.Q.Fu) Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster lushiensis (J.Q.Fu) Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster maackii Regel
- Aster mangshanensis Y.Ling
- Aster marchandii H.Lév.
- Aster medius (Krylov) Serg.
- Aster megalanthus Y.Ling
- Aster menelii H.Lév.
- Aster meyendorffii (Regel & Maack) Voss
- Aster microcephalus (Miq.) Franch. & Sav.
- Aster miquelianus H.Hara
- Aster miyagii Koidz.
- Aster molliusculus (Lindl. ex DC.) C.B.Clarke
- Aster mongolicus Franch.
- Aster morrisonensis Hayata
- Aster motuoensis Y.L.Chen
- Aster moupinensis (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster nakaoi Kitam.
- Aster neoelegans Grierson
- Aster nigromontanus Dunn
- Aster nitidus C.C.Chang
- Aster oldhamii Hemsl.
- Aster oliganthus W.P.Li & Zhi Li
- Aster oreophilus Franch.
- Aster ovalifolius Kitam.
- Aster panduratus Nees ex Walp.
- Aster pekinensis (Hance) F.H.Chen
- Aster philippinensis S.Moore
- Aster piccolii Hook.f.
- Aster poliothamnus Diels
- Aster polius C.K.Schneid.
- Aster popovii Botsch.
- Aster prainii (J.R.Drumm.) Y.L.Chen
- Aster procerus Hemsl.
- Aster pseudoglehnii Y.S.Lim, Hyun & H.Shin
- Aster pseudosimplex Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster pujosii Quézel
- Aster pycnophyllus Franch. ex Diels
- Aster pyrenaeus DC.
- Aster retusus Ludlow
- Aster rockianus Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster rugulosus Maxim.
- Aster salwinensis Onno
- Aster sampsonii Hemsl.
- Aster sanczirii Kamelin & Gubanov
- Aster satsumensis Soejima
- Aster savatieri Makino
- Aster saxicola W.P.Li & Z.Li
- Aster scaber Thunb.
- Aster sekimotoi Makino
- Aster semiamplexicaulis (Makino) Makino ex Koidz.
- Aster semiprostratus (Grierson) H.Ikeda
- Aster senecioides Franch.
- Aster setchuenensis Franch.
- Aster shimadae (Kitam.) Nemoto
- Aster sikkimensis Hook.f. & Thomson
- Aster sikuensis W.W.Sm. & Farrer
- Aster sinianus Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster sinoangustifolius Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster smithianus Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster sohayakiensis Koidz.
- Aster souliei Franch.
- Aster spathulifolius Maxim.
- Aster sphaerotus Y.Ling
- Aster stracheyi Hook.f.
- Aster sugimotoi Kitam.
- Aster taiwanensis Kitam.
- Aster takasago-montanus Sasaki
- Aster taliangshanensis Y.Ling
- Aster taoyuenensis S.S.Ying
- Aster tataricus L.f.
- Aster techinensis Y.Ling
- Aster tenuipes Makino
- Aster tianmenshanensis G.J.Zhang & T.G.Gao
- Aster tientschwanensis Hand.-Mazz.
- Aster tongolensis Franch.
- Aster tricephalus C.B.Clarke
- Aster trichoneurus Y.Ling
- Aster trinervius Roxb. ex D.Don
- Aster turbinatus S.Moore
- Aster velutinosus Y.Ling
- Aster verticillatus (Reinw.) Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster vestitus Franch.
- Aster viscidulus Makino
- Aster vvedenskyi Bondarenko
- Aster wattii C.B.Clarke
- Aster willkommii Sch.Bip. ex Willk.
- Aster woroschilovii Zdor. & I.I.Shapoval
- Aster yakushimensis (Kitam.) Soejima & Yahara
- Aster yamazutae Matsuda
- Aster yomena (Kitam.) Honda
- Aster yoshinaganus (Kitam.) Mot.Ito & Soejima
- Aster yuanqunensis (J.Q.Fu) Brouillet, Semple & Y.L.Chen
- Aster yunnanensis Franch.
- Asteromoea Blume
- Bellidastrum Scop.
- Bellidiaster Dumort.
- Borkonstia Ignatov
- Brachyaster Ambrosi
- Chlamydites J.R.Drumm.
- Gymnaster Kitam.
- Hersilea Klotzsch
- Heterochaeta DC.
- × Heterokalimeris Kitam.
- Heteropappus Less.
- Hisutsua DC.
- Homostylium Nees
- Kalimares Raf.
- Kalimeris (Cass.) Cass.
- Kitamuraea Rauschert
- Kitamuraster Soják
- Kitamuria G.L.Nesom
- Krylovia Schischk.
- Leptocoma Less.
- Margarita Gaudin
- Martinia Vaniot
- Metamyriactis G.L.Nesom
- Miyamayomena Kitam.
- Rhinactina Less.
- Rhinactinidia Novopokr.
- Rhynchospermum Reinw.
- Sinobouffordia G.L.Nesom
- Wardaster J.Small
- Yonglingia G.L.Nesom
- Zollingeria Sch.Bip.
Aster L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 872 (1753)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 413 (1994)
- Lisowski, Aster. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 39 (1991)
- Sp. Pl.: 872 (1753)
- W. Lippert in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 11: 153-258 (1973)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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