Scientific Name
Aster laevis
Common Name
Smooth aster
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
2 to 4 feet
Flower/fruit:
Almost 1 inch flower head; violet to blue flower petals and yellow center
Flowering Season:
Fall
Foliage:
1 to 3 inch, lance to elliptical or egg-shaped leaves; smooth with a pale glaucous bloom; mostly toothless, thick, stiff clasping
Site:
Dry soil, wood edges
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