General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Mountain Aster
  • Sharp-Leaved Aster
  • Aster
  • Whorled Wood Aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Oclemena acuminata
  • Synonym: Aster acuminatus

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Location: Southern Maine
I like the shape.  These are native and found a happy spot under

Date: 2010-03-31
Location: Southern Maine
Date: 2020-09-22
Note the whorled form.  This is a woodnative that volunteered in

Date: August
credit: John Cameron
Location: Canada
Date: 2017-09-10

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