Cold-hardy perennials with daisy-like flowers, aster flowers are the pollinator stars of the garden from late summer through fall. Growing 1 to 6 feet tall, depending on variety, these upright flowering plants bear cheerful, star-shaped flower heads ranging from purple to white to blue.

Aster is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Its circumscription has been narrowed, and it now encompasses around 170 species, all but one of which are restricted to Eurasia; many species formerly in Aster are now in other genera of the tribe Astereae.

Aug 2, 2020 · Plants in the genus Aster have petals that look like the rays of the sun fanning out from a yellow center. Because they belong to the order Asterales, asters are also related to daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, marigolds, and echinacea plants.

Sep 3, 2024 · Native to North America, New World asters comprise many species in several different genera of plants, as well as dozens of cultivars, but for gardeners, asters are simply great flowers that provide purple or blue daisy-like flowers late in the season.

The species native to North America, formerly included in Aster, belong to two other genera, Symphyotrichum and Eurybia. The common name remains aster for all the genera. The genus name is Greek, meaning "star," and refers to the appearance of flowers.

aster, used informally to describe any of various chiefly fall-blooming (often with showy flowers) leafy-stemmed herbaceous plants (Aster and related genera) in the Asteraceae family. True asters, those of the Aster genus, are almost exclusively Eurasian, the alpine aster (A. alpinus) being the only North American species of the 180 in the genus.

Asters are popular plants, unrivalled for their range of late-season flower colour between summer and the end of autumn. Asters lend themselves well to a range of garden styles from prairie plantings to cottage gardens and mixed borders.

Oct 4, 2023 · Plant one variety, or choose several of the hundreds in this genus and plant family for a garden full of wildlife and color throughout summer and fall. Asters are a genus of plants with captivating star-shaped flowers that carpet garden landscapes throughout fall.

Sep 4, 2024 · The Aster genus (Aster spp. L.) comprises about 200 species of plants in the Compositae plant family, the same family to which sunflowers, daisies, and chicory belong. They are plants native to Eurasia and North America.

Nov 15, 2023 · The Aster genus, part of the Asteraceae family, contains about 180 species of flowering plants. Native to Europe and Asia, these perennials are beloved for their showy, daisy-like flowers that bloom in late summer and fall, providing color when many other plants have finished blooming.