Ampelaster

Ampelaster is a North American monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There is a single known species, Ampelaster carolinianus, with the common name of climbing aster.^[3] It is native to the southeastern United States, in the States of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.^[2]

Ampelaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Astereae
Subtribe:	Symphyotrichinae
Genus:	Ampelaster G.L.Nesom
Species:	A. carolinianus
Binomial name
Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G.L.Nesom
Synonyms
Synonyms of genus name[1] Aster Linnaeus sect. Sagittiferi A. Gray Aster sect. Caroliniani Small Lasallea Greene subsect. Carolinianae (Small) Semple & Brouillet Virgulus Rafinesque sect. Sagittiferi (A. Gray) Reveal & Keener Synonyms of species name[2] Aster carolinianus Walter Aster scandens J.Jacq. ex Spreng. Lasallea caroliniana (Walter) Semple & Brouillet Symphyotrichum carolinianum (Walter) Wunderlin & B.F.Hansen Virgulus carolinianus (Walter) Reveal & Keener

Ampelaster carolinianus

Ampelaster carolinianus is unusual in the family in that it is a climber, using other plants to support its weight. Sometimes it uses adventitious roots to this end. Flower heads are 1–15 per branch, with both ray florets and disc florets, the flowers pale pink to rose-purple.^[3]

Citations

1. Semple 2006a.
2. POWO 2022.
3. Semple 2006b.

References

• POWO (2022). "Ampelaster carolinianus (Walter) G.L.Nesom". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
• Semple, J.C. (2006a). "Ampelaster". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 September 2022 – via eFloras.
• Semple, J.C. (2006b). "Ampelaster carolinianus". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 20. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 September 2022 – via eFloras.

External links

• Media related to Ampelaster at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Ampelaster at Wikispecies
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas
• eNature field guide, Climbing Aster Ampelaster carolinianus (Aster carolinianus)
• University of Waterloo (Canada), Ampelaster The Climbing Aster
• JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University