| Name | Aster puniceus var. oligocephalus Fernald |
| Authorship | Fernald |
| Rank | Variety |
| Placed in | Aster puniceus Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1899 Ottawa Naturalist 13: 105 |
| Holdings | 14 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Aster puniceus var. oligocephalus Fernald |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4), 1980 (1), 1981 (2), 1983 (3), 2019 (4) |