General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Self
Beetles
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • New England Aster
  • Aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
  • Synonym: Aster novae-angliae

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Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2015-10-06
Location: Breezy Knees garden, York, UK
Date: 2020-09-10
Location: Breezy Knees garden, York, UK
Date: 2020-09-10

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