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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>the curretnly acepted scientific name for this species. &nbsp;See:<br><a href="http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/next?v_tsn=522227&taxa=&p_king=every&p_string=containing&p_ifx=cbif&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That's not your recommended site's fault of course, it's that of the various external linked sites still using the old superseded name.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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