Calico Aster

Scientific Name:   Symphyotrichum lateriflorum


Disk florets are initially pale yellow (never bright yellow) but later become purplish. Flower heads have appressed bracts. Horizontal branching pattern. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Calico Aster


Genus species: Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
Common Name: Calico Aster
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
Identified by:A. Swanson
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