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Symphyotrichum hintonii

Symphyotrichum hintonii
Photo: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, CC0

Symphyotrichum hintonii is a perennial, herbaceous aster from the daisy family, native to oak and oak-pine woods in Guerrero and Michoacán, Mexico. It is a wild species seldom grown in gardens, so care is extrapolated from related asters.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season, letting the top few centimetres dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil; tolerates average garden soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Michoacán, Guerrero)

About

Symphyotrichum hintonii (formerly Aster hintonii) is a species of perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Guerrero, Mexico. It grows in oak and oak-pine woods at elevations of 1,400–2,200 meters (4,600–7,200 feet), blooming white ray florets November–January. It reaches heights of about 40–80 centimeters (16–31 inches).

Other Symphyotrichum plants

Scaleleaf aster · Manyray aster · Anticosti Island aster · Western aster · Symphyotrichum bimater · Northern bog aster · Symphyotrichum bullatum · Symphyotrichum burgessii · Western meadow aster · Carneros Aster · Savanna aster · Symphyotrichum chihuahuense

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphyotrichum hintonii 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.

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