Aster 01

03/07/2024

03/01/2024

Many species and a variety of hybrids and varieties are popular as garden plants because of their beautiful, attractive and colourful flowers. Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species—see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Aster. Asters can grow in all hardiness zones.

03/01/2024

Plants of the World Online accepts 185 species, as of November 2023.[2] The species formerly known as Aster tripolium (sea aster) is now Tripolium pannonicum. The species formerly known as Aster linosyris (goldilocks) is now Galatella linosyris.

02/27/2024

The genus Aster once contained nearly 600 species in Eurasia and North America, but after morphologic and molecular research on the genus during the 1990s,

02/20/2024

Perennial (rarely biennial or annual) herbaceous plants or subshrubs or shrubs 3–300 cm tall. They mostly have long or short rhizomes, rarely a caudex. Stems are mostly erect or ascending, rarely decumbent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite.

02/17/2024

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare, he can blame none but himself.

02/17/2024

Perennial (rarely biennial or annual) herbaceous plants or subshrubs or shrubs 3–300 cm tall. They mostly have long or short rhizomes, rarely a caudex. Stems are mostly erect or ascending, rarely decumbent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite. Small flowers in single or panicled baskets with a tile wrapper. Marginal flowers ligulate, blue or purple, fertile; middle ones are tubular, usually yellow. All asters have star-like flowers with yellow (sometimes reddish) centers and outer rays (not petals) of different shapes, white, pink, purple, blue or purple colors, and of different sizes.

02/17/2024

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