COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 435 



WILLOW-LEAVED ASTER 



Aster salicifdlius, Ait. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: August to October. 



Seed-time: September to November. 



Range: Maine and Ontario to Montana, southward to Florida, 



Missouri, and Texas. 

 Habitat : Moist soil ; meadows, pastures, waste places. 



Stem slender, two to five feet tall, smooth or the upper and 

 younger parts finely hairy. Leaves firm, two to four inches long, 

 somewhat rough-hairy, especially on the margins, narrow lance- 

 shaped, with few and very short fine teeth along the sides or 

 more often entire, pointed at both ends, sessile or slightly clasping 

 or the lowermost ones tapering to petioles. Heads in loose, leafy 

 panicles, each nearly an inch broad, with many violet or pale 

 purple or sometimes nearly white rays ; involucre top-shaped, its 

 bracts nearly linear, closely appressed, acute and green-tipped. 

 Achenes finely hairy with white pappus. 



Means of control the same as for Purple-stemmed Aster. 



PURPLE-STEMMED ASTER 



Aster punlceus, L. 



Other English names: Early Purple Aster, Red-stalk, Ruddy-stem, 



Swan Weed, Meadow Scabish, Cocash. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : July to November. 

 Seed-time: August to December. 

 Range: Newfoundland to Manitoba, southward to Virginia, Ohio, 



and Illinois. 

 Habitat : Moist fields and meadows, banks of streams, swamps. 



Stem three to seven feet tall, stout, grooved, erect, reddish 

 purple, bristly with short, stiff hairs, branching near the top. 

 Leaves three to six inches long and an inch or more wide, 

 oblong to lance-shaped, long-pointed, rough above, bristly on 

 midrib below, toothed along the sides, clasping the stem with an 

 auriculate base. Heads in loosely branched panicles, on 



