Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
Read more about New England Aster at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-017:
Aster novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Virgulus novae-angliae
COMMON NAME:
New England Aster, Michaelmas-daisy
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asno_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120815_805
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Well over 50 ray flowers in each 1-2" head; their color is intense, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120815_808
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm120815_812
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Leaves entire, lanceolate, pointed lobes at base conspicuously clasping stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0109a_02
September Buncombe County NC
NC Arboretum
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JK Marlow jkm090924_035
September Hancock County ME
Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia
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JK Marlow jkm090924_037
September Hancock County ME
Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae_2
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae
October
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae_3
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-017:
Aster novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Virgulus novae-angliae
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in wet meadows, bogs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Purplish-blue
Disc: Yellow becoming reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with over 50 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in leafy, often crowded, corymb-like or panicle-like arrays
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p167
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p109
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p460
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p384
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p113
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p263
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p276
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p325
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p209