The plant is native from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and as far west as Wyoming and Texas. Gardener touts 'favorite' ...

Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts / Her head and blooms again." — Helen Hunt Jackson Our native flora is on its ...

But in fields and along roadsides, swaths of native asters add explosions of color to the transitioning landscape, with their golden centered, star-shaped flowers ranging from deep purple ...