Another challenge: asters! (Quibbles, kibbitzes & $0.02 of course welcome.) Many-flowered Aster has white flowers & round-tipped, spreading involucral bracts (see note). Petite but handsome -- the flower was ~.75" (~2 cm) across, the plant (inset) less than 1' hi. Growing roadside near the shore in Acadia National Park.
Another challenge: asters! (Quibbles, kibbitzes & $0.02 of course welcome.) My book (Newcomb's) says "light blue-violet." this one does at least seem to have a tinge of color. I'm a little more troubled by the discrepancy in habitat, since the book says "dry open woods & clearings", & this one was growing pondside in Acadia National Park. Formerly called Aster undulatus.
Symphyotrichum is a genus of about 90 species of herbaceous annual and perennial plants in the composite family (Asteraceae) that were formerly treated within the genus Aster. The majority are endemic in North America, but several species also occur in the West Indies, Central and South America, as well as in eastern Eurasia. Furthermore, many species have been introduced to Europe as garden specimens, most notably the New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) and the New York...
