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Cusick's Aster - Symphyotrichum cusickii
Other Names:
Aster cusickii
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General Description
Lesica (2012) treats this species as Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. cusickii (A. Gray) P. Lesica (ined.).
Range Comments
Blue Mts. of WA and OR (Peck 1961). Kartesz (1993) also reports for MT and ID. Wallowa Mts. of ne OR, less commonly to w MT and extreme se WA (Hitchcock & Cronquist (1973).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 5
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Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans ,
Bombus bifarius ,
Bombus borealis ,
Bombus centralis ,
Bombus fervidus ,
Bombus flavifrons ,
Bombus huntii ,
Bombus mixtus ,
Bombus rufocinctus ,
Bombus sylvicola ,
Bombus ternarius ,
Bombus terricola ,
Bombus sitkensis ,
Bombus pensylvanicus ,
Bombus griseocollis ,
Bombus impatiens ,
Bombus insularis ,
Bombus suckleyi ,
Bombus bohemicus , and
Bombus kirbiellus (Plath 1934, Heinrich 1976, Thorp et al. 1983, Colla and Dumesh 2010, Colla et al. 2011, Koch et al. 2012, Williams et al. 2014, Tripoldi and Szalanski 2015).
References
Literature Cited AboveLegend: Bombus ) of Arkansas, fifty years later. Journal of Melittology 50: doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/jom.v0i50.4834
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