Michaux, A. (1803), Flora Boreali-Americana Edn. 1, 2: 111 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in maritimis paludosis Pensylvaniae et Carolinae."

Ewart, A.J. & White, J. (1910), Contributions to the flora of Australia, No. 13. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria Ser. 2, 22(2): 316 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 594 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 863-864 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 394 [secondary reference]

common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 299-300 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 361, Fig. 360. [secondary reference]

common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 662-663 [secondary reference]

common name: Wild Aster [n/a] common name: Shrub Aster [n/a] common name: Marsh Aster [n/a] common name: Aster Weed [n/a] common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 72 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 163 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Bushy starwort [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 517 [secondary reference]

common name: Wild Aster [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 660, Fig. 245 [secondary reference]

common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Aster. Flora of New South Wales 3: 175 [secondary reference]

common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a] common name: Wild Aster [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Asteraceae. Flora of Australia 50: 413 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 379 [secondary reference]

Nesom, G.L. (1994), Review of the taxonomy of Aster sensu lato (Asteraceae: Astereae), emphasizing the New World species. Phytologia 77(3): 293 [basionym]

basionym of: Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Aster. Flora of Victoria 4: 917, Fig. 187a [secondary reference]

common name: Aster-weed [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 495 [secondary reference]

common name: Wild Aster [n/a] common name: Bushy Starwort [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Symphyotrichum subulatus R.A.Kerrigan & Albr. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Aster ensifer Boss. legitimate doubtful misapplication: Aster dumosus L. legitimate by Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 235 misapplication: Aster squamatus (Spreng.) Hieron. ex Sodiro legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 1106 misapplication: Aster squamatus (Spreng.) Hieron. ex Sodiro legitimate by Audas, J.W.C., St John, P.R.H. & Morris, P.F. (1932), Alien plants recorded as naturalised in Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 49: 153

• APC Comment: Treated as Symphyotrichum subulatum in NT and Tas.
• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Aster squamatus (Spreng.) Hieron. ex Sodiro legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 163

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 280 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Symphyotrichum squamatum (Spreng.) G.L.Nesom legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Symphyotrichum squamatum (Spreng.) G.L.Nesom legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 163

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 10 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2016), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2015 census to 2016 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2016: 18 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) G.L.Nesom legitimate

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