Slender Aster

(Eurybia compacta)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, spreading, or decumbent annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from a short taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, linear to narrowly elliptic, margins entire or sharply toothed, somewhat fleshy

Reproduction: Flowers lavender to blue or pinkish-white, disk forets yellow

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}