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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 1 to 2 feet (30-60cm)
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Tolerates dry shade
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • White Wood Aster
  • Aster
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Eurybia divaricata
  • Synonym: Aster divaricatus

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Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2023-09-14
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-08-25
Location: Fairfax, VA
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden
Date: 2018-08-31
Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Location: Aurora, On
Date: 2015-09-28
Great ground cover. Easy to chop in blocks with a spade and to mo
Location: Ashe county, North Carolina
Date: August 25, 2023
White wood Aster (Contributed by Bruce Reed) ; RAB page 1074, 179
Location: Hiking Trail In Fairfax :-)
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2016-11-01
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg
Date: 2022-09-13
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Date: 2011-10-08
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg
Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Location: My garden in St Louis
Date: 2011-10-08

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
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Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Skaneateles Conservation Area
photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher
Location: Skaneateles Conservation Area
photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher

Courtesy Avant Gardens
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Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield

Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: US Botanical Garden VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28
Variety 'Potomac Ripple', which seems to be nonexistent on the in

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
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Location: Waynesboro MS
Date: 2012-10-26
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Date: 2011-10-08
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Date: 2011-10-08
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Date: 2011-10-08
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