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Eurybia conspicua
Also called Showy Aster
Western showy aster is a native North American perennial that spreads by rhizomes to form loose colonies, with blue or violet daisy-like flowers. It grows best in cool, moist, well-drained woodland-edge or meadow conditions.
Eurybia conspicua, commonly known as the western showy aster, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to western Canada (from Manitoba to British Columbia) and the western United States (northern Cascades, northern Rockies, Black Hills, and other mountains of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota).
Eurybia conspicua is a perennial spreading by means of underground rhizomes, thus forming loose clonal colonies. Each plant can produce a flat-topped array of 5-50 flower heads, each head with 12–35 blue or violet ray florets surrounding 48–55 yellow disc florets.
Alexander's rock aster · Mountain aster · Slender aster · White wood aster · Thistleleaf aster · Forked aster · Southern prairie aster · Thickstem aster · Jones' aster · King's Serpentweed · Bigleaf aster · Subalpine aster
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eurybia conspicua 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.
