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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Oclemeninae
  8. Nodding-asters

genus

Nodding-asters

Oclemena

Traits
Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Whorled Wood Aster native
  • Bog Aster native
  • Pinebarren Aster native
  • Blake's Aster

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native nodding-asters All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Whorled Wood Aster Oclemena acuminata caterpillars 2 flowers 14
  • Pinebarren Aster Oclemena reticulata flowers 4
  • Bog Aster Oclemena nemoralis flowers 2

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