Small White Aster

Scientific Name:   Symphyotrichum racemosum


Numerous flowers clustered along long stems in racemes. Central disk is yellowish, aging to a pinkish color. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Small White Aster


Genus species: Symphyotrichum racemosum
Common Name: Small White 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
Months in Bloom  
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