• Height: 4 feet
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  • Light: Full sun to part shade
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  • Soil: Medium to wet
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  • Blooms: White with yellow center, late summer to frost
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  • Landscape: Meadow, native garden, patio garden, walkways, slopes, stream banks. Good in a rain garden
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  • Pair with: Joe Pye Weed, Swamp Milkweed, River Oats, Wool Grass
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  • Tolerates: Occasional flooding, deer
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  • Fun Fact: False Aster is not a true aster because of the bristles on its fruits.
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False Aster

SKU: BA01-SS
$8.00Price

  • Pollinator value: Very High; attracts Monarchs and other butterflies, moths, native bees and other pollinators.  Seeds provide food for waterfowl. 

    Hundreds of white blooms appear on a single plant and continue blooming until frost.  Most other late-flowering plants, like asters, are yellow or blue/purple.