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Symphyotrichum occidentale (Nutt.) M.A.Paz

Asteraceae · Alberta, British Columbia +11

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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About the genus · Symphyotrichum

Symphyotrichum is a genus of over 100 species and naturally occurring hybrids of herbaceous annual and perennial plants in the composite family, Asteraceae, most which were formerly treated within the genus Aster. The majority are endemic to North America, but several also occur in the West Indies, Central and South America, as well as one species in eastern Eurasia. Several species have been introduced to Europe as garden specimens, most notably New England aster and New York aster.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Symphyotrichum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 4209647 (Tripolium occidentale Nutt., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeAlberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Mexico Northwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 4209647 (Tripolium occidentale Nutt.): Kew's file holds it as Tripolium occidentale Nutt. (synonym under Symphyotrichum occidentale (Nutt.) M.A.Paz); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Symphyotrichum 56 in the reference

Symphyotrichum adnatum Symphyotrichum adnatum Scale-leaf aster Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphyotrichum anomalum Symphyotrichum anomalum Many-ray aster Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphyotrichum anticostense Symphyotrichum anticostense Anticosti Island aster Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphyotrichum ascendens Symphyotrichum ascendens Western aster Photo: CC BY, Daughter DadSymphyotrichum boreale Symphyotrichum boreale Northern bog aster Photo: CC BY, Alex BaxterSymphyotrichum campestre Symphyotrichum campestre Western meadow aster Photo: CC BY, Anders HastingsSymphyotrichum chilense Symphyotrichum chilense Pacific aster Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphyotrichum ciliolatum Symphyotrichum ciliolatum Lindley's aster Photo: CC BY, Robyn PerkinsSymphyotrichum concolor Symphyotrichum concolor Eastern silver aster Photo: CC BY, carterSymphyotrichum cordifolium Symphyotrichum cordifolium Beeweed Photo: CC BY, Alan RockefellerSymphyotrichum divaricatum Symphyotrichum divaricatum Slimaster Photo: CC BY, Chris StahlSymphyotrichum drummondii Symphyotrichum drummondii Drummond's aster Photo: CC0, author not stated all 57 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tripolium occidentale. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(Nutt.) M.A.Paz
Native to
Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado +10
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Symphyotrichum occidentale (Nutt.) M.A.Paz (plant_name_id 3330000), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 4209647, Tripolium occidentale Nutt. (Kew's file holds it as Tripolium occidentale Nutt. (synonym under Symphyotrichum occidentale (Nutt.) M.A.Paz)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77366832-1, POWO 77366832-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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