WHITE HEATH ASTER 



tudes than the leaves. White Heath Aster often 

 companions the White Aster, the two side by 

 side comfort the desolation of early frosts along 

 highway and byway, and though they bravely 

 look winter in the face, a farewell to summer is 

 borne on each of their trembling petals. 



WHITE HEATH ASTER 



Aster ericoides 



Native, perennial. A profusely blooming 

 White Aster of bushy type and found along 

 roadsides and in dry fields, marked by many 

 bract-like leaflets. Maine and Ontario, south 

 to Florida, west to Wisconsin. September- 

 November. 



Stem. — One to three feet high, smooth, hard, woody, 

 branching and bushy. 



Leaves. — Basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, slightly 

 dentate or entire, sometimes with margined petioles. 

 Stem-leaves narrowly linear, three to four inches long, 

 growing smaller as they ascend the stem, acute, entire. 

 Leaves of branchlets awl-shaped, many. 



Flower-heads. — Numerous, white, three to five- 

 eighths of an inch across. Rays twenty to twenty- 



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