New England aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (L.) G.L.Nesom
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Hairy Michaelmas-daisy, Michaelmas daisy, Wild Prairie Aster, Hairy Michaelmas daisy
Formerly Aster altissimus, Aster amplexicaulis, Aster muehlenbergii, Aster novae-angliae, and 6 more
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 U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- SYMNOV, SYMNOVA
- Portuguese
- Áster-da-Nova-Inglaterra
- French
- Aster de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
- Czech
- astřička novonaglická
- German
- Raublatt-Herbstaster
- Norwegian Bokmål
- klisterasters
- Russian
- Астра новоанглийская, Симфиотрихум новоанглийский, Американская астра новоанглийская
- Lithuanian
- Šiurkščialapis astrūnas
- Polish
- Aster Nowoangielski
- Japanese
- ネバリノギク
- Estonian
- kaunis sügisaster, kaunis aster
- Chinese (China)
- 美国紫菀
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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