Aster Puniceus.—Red-Stalked Aster.
Botanical name:
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Symphyotrichum longifolium (Lam.) Nesom.
Engl.: long-leaf blue aster, rheumatic-weed, Sampson snake-root, star flower.
Bot. syn.: Aster aestivus Dryand. ex Ait., Aster longifolius Lam.
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