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Aster amellus
Also called Italian Aster, Italian Starwort
European Michaelmas-daisy is a hardy perennial aster with lilac, daisy-like flowers in late summer and autumn, valued for its late colour. It grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and good air movement.
Aster amellus, the European Michaelmas daisy, is a perennial herbaceous plant and the type species of the genus Aster and the family Asteraceae.
Asters are valued in the garden for late summer and autumn colour in shades of blue, pink and white. This species has several cultivars of ornamental garden use. The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-
'Framfieldii'
This plant is present on the European mountains from the Pyrenees and the Alps to the Carpathians. Outside Europe it is located in western Asia (Turkey), the Caucasus, Siberia, South Asia (Uttarakhand, India) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan).
Rough Surface Aster · Alpine aster · Frikart's Aster · Korean Montane Aster · Doellingeria scabra · Tatarian aster · Field aster · Michaelmas Daisy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aster amellus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
