DENSE-FLOWERED ASTER 



The Mountain Aster has little to offer by way 

 of beauty, but the plant is interesting in that 

 it is native to northern latitudes and high moun- 

 tain tops. Just before liowering the upper 

 leaves of the stem become somewhat crowded, 

 which gives the appearance of a whorl of leaves 

 at the summit. The rays someway fail of or- 

 derly development, and, projecting at many 

 angles from the disk, present a dishevelled ap- 

 pearance; they are about half an inch long; did 

 they stay in order they would make a fairly 

 large blossom for an Aster. 



DENSE-FLOWERED ASTER. WHITE 

 WREATH ASTER 



Aster mnUifldrus 



Native, perennial. On roadsides, in open 

 woods and fence corners, preferring dry loca- 

 tions to moist. Of continental distribution east 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 



Stem. — One to four feet high, much branched; 

 branches long and slender, ascending or spreading, 

 one to two feet long. 



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