About This Plant
An option for shade gardens, it does well with some morning sun and requires well drained soil and is drought-tolerant. It can form colonies, as it spreads via rhizomes. It provides valuable late-season nectar to pollinators, and its seeds are eaten by birds.
Plant Details
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Benefits
- Wildlife Benefits
Plant Facts
Birds will use this plant’s seeds as a food source in the winter, and seed fluff as a nest building material. | White Wood Aster previously went by the latin name Aster divaricatus.
Alternate Names
White Heart-leaved Aster, White Star Aster, Wood Aster
