Pinewoods Aster (Eurybia spinulosa)

Eurybia spinulosa in flower during the site assessment in early August.

Photo Credit: Cami Adams

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Asteraceae
State: FL
Nature Serve ID: 140308
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 11/22/2022

Description:

Where is Pinewoods Aster (Eurybia spinulosa) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Pinewoods Aster can be found in Florida

Which CPC Partners conserve Pinewoods Aster (Eurybia spinulosa)?

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 11/16/22

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Conservation Actions

Jason Ligon

11/16/2022

This was no small feat. Although numbers of individual plants and available seeds were not numerous, seed collection was a success. With available habitat for E. spinulosa having dwindled drastically with its conversion to pine plantations and all reported populations of Eurybia spinulosa occurring on private timber company lands, it was refreshing to learn that it occurs at the well-managed St. Joe Buffer Preserve. In this context, seedbanking the measly six maternal lines (ML) was a small but mighty effort, harvesting enough seeds per ML to be divided between the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Conservation Seed Bank and the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation (NLGRP). With limited seed set, these six MLs now safeguarded in long-term conventional storage represent genetic diversity across 3 sites where only 5, 3, and 1 individual were present and producing seeds.