Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

The white wood aster (Aster divaricatus) tolerates dry shade and average to poor soil. You have no doubt seen this hardy plant in woodland areas. It makes a ground cover that spreads by rhizomes ...

Asters play a major role in supporting native pollinators, and their flowers are mobbed by myriad bees, flies, wasps and ...