Description: Some aster (Symphyotrichum sp), Aster family (Asteraceae). Red Butte Garden Natural Area, Salt Lake City, Utah. I occasionally find this type of aster around the Red Butte. They are not so abundant here as S. ascendens and differ from it in several respects. This plant is more robust, the phyllaries are mostly without a white scarious base and more rounded at the tip. They look imbricate, however, so in the key, I would come to S. ascendens. If not, then S. foliaceus would be the next choice, if I disregard the long and narrow leaves and tall statue of this plant. Still puzzled.. Date: 5 August 2016, 13:55. Source:
2016.08.05_13.55.16_DSC05465. Author:
Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.