Asters generally refer not only to the stunning flowers in the aster genus, but also their closely related North American relatives in the Symphyotrichum and Eurybia genera. These fall blooming ...

One source stated that there are 2,687 species in the aster family in the United States and Canada. The genus, Aster, is smaller and includes the familiar flowers known as asters, but it’s still ...

Meanwhile, the entire aster genus is native to Eurasia, northwest Africa, Canada, and the northwest U.S.. For those living within the United States, you can find aster varieties that are native to ...

As the growing season winds down, the blooms of Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, commonly called New England aster, add their colors to those of the autumn leaves. “It brings the fall” was the ...

One such case in the aster genus is the New England aster. Gardeners and botanists alike refer to it as the showiest. This native perennial is one of the tallest of the asters. It produces ...

The bigger problem is that the term “aster” can be deceiving. True fall asters all used to belong to the genus Aster, which was all well and good for years. But like everything lately ...

That led botanists to split the genus Aster into eleven genera. 180 species, all but one from Europe, retained the name Aster. The rest, all from North America, were put into ten new genera.

aster (with lowercase a) remains the common name for a species-rich genus that taxonomists have re-examined and largely reassigned elsewhere. Only one native Aster (A. alpinus) remains in North ...

It's the only one of some 250 species in the Aster genus that likes heights. While it isn't great for the entire Pacific Northwest, the climbing aster does well in the Willamette Valley and warmer ...

The Aster genus has been ripped apart by taxonomists, and most of what are considered New World Asters now fall into the genus Symphyotrichum. (how's that for a tongue-twister?) Members of this ...