COMPOSITE FAMILY. Compositas. 



Arrow-leaved 

 Aster 



Aster 



sagittifoUus 

 Light violet 

 August- 

 October 



Smooth Aster 



Aster loevis 

 Light violet 

 September- 

 October 



A rather northern species. The stem 

 stiff, erect, and with nearly upright 

 branches. The light olive green leaves 

 thin, broad lance-shaped, and sparingly 

 toothed toward the top of the stem, but 

 somewhat arrow-shaped lower down. The 

 small, light violet flowers are not showy ; 

 there are 10-14 rays about \ inch long. 2-4 feet high. 

 In dry soil. Me., south to K}-., west to Pa., and N. Dak. 

 Variable but handsome, with light violet 

 or paler blue- violet flowers about an inch 

 broad, and nearly if not entirely toothless, 

 smooth, light green leaves, lance-shaped, 

 stemless, and clasping the plant-stem with 

 a somewhat heart-shaped base. The flowers with 15-30 

 rays. Stem 2-4 feet high, smooth, and sometimes cov- 

 ered with a light bloom. Dry soil, roadsides, and bor- 

 ders of woods ; common everywhere. 



A tiny white aster common in southern 

 New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 

 Stem generally smooth and closely set 

 above with tiny, heathlike, linear, light 

 green leaves, the few basal ones blunt 

 lance-shaped and slightly toothed ; all are 

 rather rigid. The tiny white flowers with 

 yellow discs are like miniature daisies ; there are 16-24 

 narrow rays sometimes lightly tinted with magenta. 

 This aster has spread beyond its original limits through 

 cultivation by bee-keepers : its yield of nectar is large, 

 and it is an especial favorite of the honeybee. 1-3 feet 

 high. Common in dry fields and on roadsides, from Me. , 

 south, and west from south N. Eng. to Wis. and Ky. 



Another tiny-flowered aster, with hairy. 

 Many =f lowered Qfj-gj^ brownish stems. The tiny, linear, 

 light green leaves are fine-hairy or rough. 

 The dense flower-clusters are crowded 

 with white or lilac-white flowers scarcely 

 I inch broad, with 12-20 rays. Stems 

 bushy. 1-4 feet high. Common in dry 

 open places, from southern N. Eng., soutli 

 and west. Rare in Me., and absent in northern N. H= 



Michaelmas 

 Daisy or 

 Heath Aster 



Aster ericoides 

 White 

 September 

 November 



Aster 

 Aster 



multiflorus 

 White or 

 lilac=white 

 September- 

 November 



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