General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 24-36 inches
Plant Spread: 12-18 inches
Fruit: Other: Rough textured, glandular purple mottled cypsela, aging to gray.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Lavender
Mauve
Pink
Purple
Red
White
Yellow
Bloom Size: 3"-4"
4"-5"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Needs specific temperature: Germinates best at 68-72 deg F
Days to germinate: 10-20 days
Depth to plant seed: barely cover
Suitable for wintersowing
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Susceptible to aster wilt; do not plant where asters have been grown the previous year.
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots

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Common names
  • China Aster
  • Chinese aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Callistephus chinensis
  • Synonym: Callistephus hortensis
  • Synonym: Aster chinensis
  • Synonym: Asteriscodes chinensis

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Location: Kalama, wa
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Location: Coastal WA 9A
Date: 2023-08-03
Location: Columbus, Ohio USA, Zone 6b
Date: 2021-05-24
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Date: 2019-05-12

Date: 2014-08-03
'Blue Moon'

Date: 2014-09-04

Date: 2013-08-02
'Blue Moon'

Date: 2014-08-28

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Date: 2013-09-11

Date: 2013-09-11
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Date: 2019-05-12
Grown from seed; sown 2/9; bloomed 5/12/19

Date: 2013-09-11
Location: Vladivostok, Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2010-09-22
China Aster (Callistephus chinensis)
Location: sherwood oregon
Date: 2014-10-12 
in my bee garden
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2014-09-22
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2014-09-22
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-06-20
Location: Calgary
Date: 2009-09-12
cultivar Reine-Marguerite Duchess Blue Ice

Date: 2014-09-04

Date: 2014-09-04

Date: 2013-09-11

Date: 2013-09-11
Location: sherwood oregon
Date: 2014-10-12 
in my bee garden

Date: 2014-08-19

Date: 2014-08-19

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Date: 2014-08-19
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