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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. American Asters
  8. Allopolyploid Asters

subgenus

Allopolyploid Asters

Ascendentes

Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Western Aster native
  • San Bernardino Aster native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native allopolyploid asters All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Western Aster Symphyotrichum ascendens keystone caterpillars 55 bees 12 hosts 1 food 9 flowers 198 shelter 1
  • San Bernardino Aster Symphyotrichum defoliatum keystone caterpillars 18 bees 4 hosts 1 food 4 flowers 98

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