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Decribes the plant
Aster Lateriflorus
Aster Lateriflorus is a plant that grows in low woods, wet prairies, swamps, sloughs, edges of streams, and borders of ponds and lakes. This plant is on the verge of vulnerablilty. We should ensure that this plant should stay in the ecosystem because animals like the white-talied deer and waterfowl need this as a source of energy. Its habitat is in the Perennial herb with slender rhizomes. It grows in these areas because it needs moisture and it likes dark places. The leaves are eaten by white-tailed deer, while the fruits of the plant are eaten by waterfowl. The leaves of the plant are linear and are pointy at the tip. The plant may or may not have teeth, sometimes they are rough to touch and are not hairy on the upper surface. The leaves are smooth on the lower surface untill the hairy midvein. The plant is usally 6 inches long and is up to 1 1/2 inches wide. The Aster Lateriflorus grows mostly between the months of August to November. It grows in Sand, Loam, and Clay. We have the Aster Lateriflorus in Satec because we are an evironmental school and believe that all plants that grow here should be growing by themselves and that everything should be natural. No one at Satec believes that our plants should be tempered with, and we don't try to control how the plants grow but, we take out any new species of plants that are not native plants. By letting mother nature go on with its course, we are representing a true environmental community. Bibliography: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/wildflowers/aster_lateriflorus.html, http://tomclothier.hort.net/album/asterlvh.htm http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/plntguid/species/astelate.htm