This short, late-blooming wood aster blooms prolifically, even in the unfavorable conditions of dry soil and heave shade. Watch in delight as the darkest parts of your garden light up in the fall with hundreds of pink-eyed, white-petalled, daisy-like flowers, providing important late-season pollen and nectar for bees and other pollinators before their long winter naps.
Conditions: Part shade to full shade; dry to average soilsSize: 1 – 1.5’ height and spread
Zone: 3 - 8
Wildlife Value: Flowers attract a large variety of insects, including long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, beetles, and plant bugs; larval host for dozens of butterfly and moth species
Photos: Samantha Nestory