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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
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  7. American Asters
  8. Late and Scaleleaf Purple Asters
  9. Scaleleaf Asters
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Top native scaleleaf asters

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

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1 native plant

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1 Part shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Dry 1 Well drained 1 Moist 1

Soil

Sand 1 Loam 1

Soil pH

Acid 1 Neutral 1

Toughness

Drought tolerant

Yes 1

Resists

Heat 1

Form

Habit

Erect 1 Prostrate 1

Plant type

Ground cover 1 Herbaceous perennial 1
  • Walter's Aster Symphyotrichum walteri caterpillars 41 bees 9 hosts 2 food 11 flowers 151

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