[NatureNS] New York Aster flowers?

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From: Steve Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:58:57 -0300
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&lt;div class="Wj3C7c"&gt;&lt;br&gt;the curretnly acepted scientific name for this species. &amp;nbsp;See:&lt;br&gt;<a href="http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/next?v_tsn=522227&amp;taxa=&amp;p_king=every&amp;p_string=containing&amp;p_ifx=cbif&amp;p_la
Hi Ron,
Thanks, that simpler link does now work for me.
A caution, however.   If you type in "Aster novi-belgii" is does tell 
you that it is a non-accepted genus and that Aster is a synonym for 
Symphyotrichum.  But if you impatiently skip to click on the 
images.Google.com link on that page, it brings up a slew of daisy 
images all identified as Aster novi-belgii not Symphyotrichum.  So as 
an incautious novice acting on a guess and simply wanting to look for a 
matching picture (my category), you'd have to be a bit careful not to 
skip reading that first page or you'd still think it was called Aster 
n-b.   That's not your recommended site's fault of course, it's that of 
the various external linked sites still using the old superseded name.
Nobody suggested what would be a good Eastern N. America plant ID book 
to buy, with lots of colour pictures.  Any recommendations?
Steve

On 30-Oct-08, at 6:17 PM, Ronald Arsenault wrote:

> Stephen,
>  
> Try the main page of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System 
> (ITIS) and conduct a search from there.  It is found here:  
> http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/taxaget?p_ifx=cbif
>  
> Good luck,
>  
> Ron
> 2008/10/30 Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca>
>> Thanks Ann, Ron, for the confirmation, which is what I was after.
>>
>> I couldn't make Ron's link work, but the Symphyotrichum genus name 
>> change is
>>  confirmed if you go to (e.g.) the USDA site
>> plants.usda.gov
>> then plug Symphyotrichum into the search box, which brings up a page 
>> in which
>> the former name Aster is given as a synonym for the species in 
>> question.
>>
>> I can't track it now, but earlier today I read somewhere on line that 
>> taxonomic
>> experts had decided that the N. American asters were sufficiently 
>> distinct from
>> the European species that they deserved to be moved to a different 
>> genus, while
>>  the Europeans, discovered first, got to retain the original genus 
>> name of
>> Aster.
>> Thanks again,
>> Steve

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