WHITE WOOD ASTER 



long, imbricated in about five series and the greenish 

 tips spreading. Pappus white. 



The Seaside Aster, like the Seaside Golden- 

 rod, is a rare and beautiful species of its kind. 

 Found only near the coast, often where the foli- 

 age is wet with the salt spray of the sea, it forms 

 a bushy mass of pointed leaves which is covered 

 more or less abundantly with beautiful violet- 

 blue flower-heads, in size about that of a silver 

 half-dollar. It is well named spectahilis^ for it is 

 one of the loveliest of the clan. 



WHITE WOOD ASTER 



Aster divaricdtus 



Native, perennial. An early White Aster 



found in open woodlands in rather dry soil. 



Canada, southward to Georgia and Tennessee. 



Stem. — More or less zigzag, one to two feet high, 

 branching at the top and repeatedly forked. 



Leaves. — Thin with slender petioles, broadly ovate, 

 serrate-dentate with sharp teeth, cordate at base, acute 

 at apex. 



Flower-heads. — White in loose flattish clusters. Rays 

 white, six to nine; disk yellow, soon turning brown. 



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