This largely Appalachian species is widely scattered in Appalachian regions of Ky. There are a few records from further west along the southern Knobs or nearby, but these need verification. The genus Doellingeria is a well established segregate of Aster (sensu lato). This and other loosely allied small genera--Oclemana, Ionactis, Sericacarpus--tend to have distinct species with uniform chromosome number: 2n = 18 in all eastern taxa (FNA 20).