Small White Aster

Small White Aster

Aster vimineus

Aster or Daisy Family - Asteraceae

Flower heads with 15 to 30 ray flowers and a brownish-yellow central disk.

Along roadsides and in meadows, this rather bushy aster (1 to 4 feet tall) with smooth to hairy reddish, much branching stems has numerous, small (about � inch wide), white flower heads.

Leaves slender, often only lower ones toothed, and with small leaflets at the axils. (Photographed � late August)

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