COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 435 
WILLOW-LEAVED ASTER 
Aster salicifolius, 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 puniceus, L. 
Other English names: Early Purple Aster, Red-stalk, Ruddy-stem, 
Swan Weed, Meadow Seabish, Cocash. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to November. 
Seed-time: August to December. ote ; 
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 
