Calico Aster
Scientific Name: Aster lateriflorus
Family: Asteraceae
Description: Several small flower heads of white or pale purple ray flowers surrounding yellow or purple disk flowers are on one side of straggly, divergent branches
Habitat: Fields, thickets
Range: Eastern North America west to Tennessee and Arkansas
Comments: One of a group of closely related and difficult to distinguish Asters.
Source: National Audubon Society, Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
Photograph: Used with permission from Patrick Alexander.
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