Common name: Alpine aster Scientific name: Aster alpinus Origin: Europe Low, steadily spreading plants with individual flowers in purple or pink, making these ideal pink plants for a summer border.

Both varieties are larval hosts for the Pearl ... purity and precision. Aster flowers were considered to be sacred to Greek and Roman gods. The leaves were burned by ancient Greeks and Romans ...

Big Leaf Aster is a great groundcover for a shady area with crappy soil. It will grow in all types of soil. The plant will eventually grow into a solid ground cover by rhizomes (underground stems).

He also plants a lot of the blue wood aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium), which bears light blue flowers in full sun to partial shade, and calico aster (Symphiotrichum laterifolium) “Lady in Black,” ...