New England Aster

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Long-lived perennial

Location

Groundcover Collection

Source of plant

Seneca Hill Perennials

Description

The best white-flowered Aster novae-angliae, collected from a high, lonely open stretch of County Route 242 in Cattaraugus County, New York, somewhere between Little Valley and Ellicottville, primarily because it and a few other isolated plants were the only wild white Aster novae-angliae we'd ever encountered. In the fertile moist magnificence of our garden soil, it turned into a six-foot-plus billowing mass of white, with flowers roughly 1.5in across.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Special characteristics

flower color