General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Western Aster
  • Pacific Aster
  • Western American-Aster
  • Everywhere Aster
  • Long-Leaved Aster
  • Aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Symphyotrichum ascendens
  • Synonym: Aster ascendens
  • Synonym: Aster macounii
  • Synonym: Aster subgriseus
  • Synonym: Virgulaster ascendens

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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2022-11-07
Tentative ID.
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2022-11-07
Tentative ID.
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2022-08-24

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