General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 18 - 20 inches
Plant Spread: 12 - 18 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Semi-evergreen
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Other: Blue Violet
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Division
Pollinators: Self
Beetles
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • New York Aster
  • Michaelmas Daisy
  • Aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
  • Synonym: Aster novi-belgii
Also sold as:
  • Professor Anton Kippenberg

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Location: Alnwick garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-10-16

Date: 2012-10-15

Photo credit: David J. Stang

Date: 2012-10-15

Photo courtesy of Joy Creek Nursery

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Comments:
  • Posted by rolhoh on Jul 28, 2017 2:30 PM concerning plant:
    About the name "Prof Anton Kippenberg".
    Who choose the "prof Anton Kippenberg" ?
    He was a German publisher 1874 - 1950 from Bremen.

    Rolf Hohmann

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