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Asteraceae
Aster
Aster
Patience, elegance, daintiness, love.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Aster
- Native to
- Eurasia
- Bloom season
- Late Summer, Fall
- Type
- herbaceous perennial
- Height
- 20–180 cm
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Water
- Regular
- Hardiness
- 3–8
- Lifespan
- Perennial
Did you know
- The name 'aster' comes from the Greek word for 'star,' referring to the flower's radiating petals.
- Asters are the birth flower of September.
- They're a critical late-season nectar source for migrating monarch butterflies.
- Greek legend says asters sprang from the tears of the goddess Astraea when she wept at the lack of stars on earth.
- North American asters were reclassified in the 1990s into different genera — most are now Symphyotrichum, not Aster.