NEW ENGLAND ASTER 



The Asters have two well-defined groups of 

 leaves, basal and stem, usually quite different. 

 The disk-florets after flowering often change 

 from yellow to red, brown, or purple. All have 

 pappus, white or tawny, which is the Aster- 

 remnant of the compressed calyx. 



NEW ENGLAND ASTER 



Aster NdvcB-AnglicB 



Native, perennial. A very showy, abundant 



and beautiful Aster. In fields and roadsides, 



from Canada to South Carolina, west to Kansas 



and Colorado. August-October. 



Stem. — Two to five feet high, stout, rough, pubescent, 

 leafy when young, corymbosely branched at the summit. 



Leaves. — Stem-leaves two to five inches long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, pubescent, entire, acute, clasping the stem 

 by an eared or heart-shaped base. In early autumn 

 the stem-leaves often turn brown and fall. 



Flower-heads. — Violet-purple, red-purple, rose, white. 

 Many, in size about that of a silver half-dollar, some- 

 times larger, densely clustered at the ends of the 

 branches, which appear on the upper half of the stem. 

 Rays forty to sixty, linear. Involucre bell-shaped; 

 bracts in several rows, linear, pointed, green often 

 suffused with purple, spreading. Pappus tawny. 



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