Aster chilensis  Nees.

Ubiquity: Common

Distritution: Throughout

Plant Communities:  Many including Ruderal

Habitats:  Dry, sunny, grassy slopes/valley floors/streamsides/streambanks; & disturbed places like fields; in alluvial formations

Elevations:  5-1600'

Comments:  = A. c. vars. invenustus & sonomensis 

Updated:  2/25/98

Aster lentus  E. Greene

Ubiquity: Very uncommon

Distritution: Known only from Fagan's Marsh

Plant Communities:  Coastal Salt Marsh

Habitats:  A moist, sunny, silty, saline, marshy area; in an alluvial formation

Elevation:  5'

Comments:  Rare and Endangered  (CNPS-1B, FED-C2).  Not to be collected; photographs needed.  May not be a distinct taxon as it intergrades with A. chilensis

Updated:  2/25/98

Aster radulinus  A. Gray

Ubiquity: Common

Distritution: Throughout except Napa Marsh

Plant Communities:  Mixed Evergreen Forest, Blue Oak Woodland & Regular Chaparral

Habitats:  Dry, shaded, forested or wooded or brushy slopes; in volcanic & sedimentary formations

Elevations:  150-2600'

Comments:  

Updated:  2/25/98

Aster subulatus  Michaux

     var. ligulatus  Shinn.

Ubiquity:  Very uncommon

Distritution: Known only from J.F.K. Memorial Park & on the Napa River at Imola Ave.

Plant Communities:  Coastal Salt Marsh, Riparian

Habitats:  Moist, sunny, silty, brackish, marshy areas & riverbanks; in an alluvial formation

Elevation:  5-10'

Comments:  = A. exilis.  Collection needed

Updated:  2/25/98