Closely related to its Mediterranean counterpart, chicory, Stokes aster is native to the Southeastern ... with large, deep blue flowers. The cultivar 'Color Wheel' adds variable interest with ...

Sky blue aster is a standout in a pageant of botanical ... A healthy plant can tower 3 feet or taller and sport dozens of deep blue flowers. Such a specimen would draw oohs and aahs if planted ...

But in fields and along roadsides, swaths of native asters add explosions of color to the transitioning landscape, with their golden centered, star-shaped flowers ranging from deep purple ...

Riddell had discovered the beautiful sky-blue aster, and its scientific name — Symphyotrichum oolentangiense — commemorates the river where he found it. Nectar-rich aster flowers are a ...

So if you see a flower that looks vaguely like one of these flowers, it's probably an aster. Flowers like the Bonita Top Blue (Callistephus chinensis) are sometimes a little harder to identify.