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Symphyotrichum turbinellum
Also called Prairie Aster
Smooth violet prairie aster is a North American perennial wildflower of dry prairies and Ozark woodland edges, grown for its late-summer blue-purple daisy flowers. It is a good, low-fuss garden plant that tolerates dry, acidic soil and needs full sun.
Symphyotrichum turbinellum (formerly Aster turbinellus), with the common names of prairie aster, smooth violet prairie aster, and mauve-flowered starwort, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to the United States in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, primarily in the Ozarks. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It flowers from August to October.
Symphyotrichum turbinellum has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
S. turbinellum is native to the United States in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, primarily in the Ozarks. It can be found growing in dry and acidic soils at elevations between 60 and 900 meters (200 and 2,950 feet).
Common blue wood aster · Rice button aster · White heath aster · Short-rayed alkali aster · Smooth blue aster · White panicle aster · Calico aster · New England aster · New York aster · Hairy white oldfield aster · Aster
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphyotrichum turbinellum 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.
