The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Oclemena
Also called Nodding Asters
Oclemena is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. All species in the genus are native to eastern North America. The species were originally included in the genus Aster so they are often referred to simply as asters. Since their flower heads are nodding in bud, they are sometimes called nodding-asters.
Oclemena species are native to eastern North America. Oclemena acuminata is the most wide-ranging species, from the Appalachian Uplands of Newfoundland to the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. state of Georgia. In contrast, Oclemena reticulata îs restricted to the extreme southeastern United States where other species of Oclemena are not found. Oclemena nemoralis and Oclemena × blakei are boreal species that prefer the cold acidic bogs of eastern Canada and northeastern United States.
Whorled wood aster · Blake's Aster · Bog aster · Pine barren whitetop aster
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oclemena by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
