Heath aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides (L.) G.L.Nesom
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called White heath aster, Many-flowered aster
Formerly Aster ericoides, Lasallea ericoides, Virgulus ericoides
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Canada to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- root
- SYMERI
- French
- aster éricoïde
- Czech
- astřička vřesovcová
- Chinese
- 白翠菊, 白花紫菀
- Chinese (China)
- 白翠菊, 柳叶白菀
- Swedish
- ljungaster
- Russian
- Астра вересковая, Симфиотрихум эриковидный
- Lithuanian
- Smulkialapis astrūnas
- Finnish
- kanerva-asteri
- Polish
- aster wrzoścowy
- Slovak
- astra vresovcovitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Symphyotrichum ericoides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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