| Name | Aster townshendii Hooker |
| Authorship | Hooker |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Aster Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1879 Bot. Mag. 105, t. 6430 |
| Holdings | 7 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Aster townshendii Hooker |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4), 1986 (3) |