Late Purple Aster – Native Plant of the Day 10/16/2024
Photo from 10/16/2010. Location: Blount County, TN.
More photos & info at the Symphyotrichum patens detail page.
Late Purple Aster, Spreading Aster – Symphyotrichum patens
New England Aster – Native Plant of the Day 09/29/2024
Photo from 9/29/2014. Location: Stow, Summit County, OH.
More photos & info at the Symphyotrichum novae-angliae detail page.
New England Aster – Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Whorled Wood Aster – Native Plant of the Day 09/20/2024
Photo from Sep 23, 2013. Location: GSMNP, Swain County, NC
More photos / info at the Oclemena acuminata detail page.
Whorled Wood Aster – Oclemena acuminata
Whorled Wood Aster, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (11/02/2013.) Scientific name is Centrosema virginianum. Photo below was taken near the Clingman’s Dome access road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Swain County, NC on Sep 23, 2013. Go to the Whorled Wood Aster detail page for more photos and information.
Whorled Wood Aster – Oclemena acuminata
My wife and I were trying to get back home on Friday, 10/5, for a grandson’s final football game of the season (6th grade), but we managed to carve out a few hours for a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway between Roanoke and Hillsville in Virginia. We were glad we did. The weather was wonderful, and the colors, while not yet to peak, were quite wonderful.
Tree in fall garb along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Native Plant of the Day 09/29/2013
Photo from Oct 3, 2009. Location: Walker County, GA
Frost Aster- for more information go to the Symphyotricum pilosum detail page.
Frost Aster, White Heath Aster – Symphyotrichum pilosum
My wife and I were going over to Waynesville, NC on Thursday to pick up a granddaughter who had been spending a few days with her best friend from Papua New Guinea. Being the fall color season, we wanted to take some time for some photographs in the mountains, so we left early, before 7 AM. It turned out that sunrise was just as we were getting to Lake Ocoee (also known as Parksville Lake), and the cool morning brought fog and mist with it. We also had time to take brief drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the daytrip to Waynesville.
Sunrise over Lake Ocoee
Late Purple Aster, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (10/22/2010.) Scientific name is Symphyotrichum patens. Photo below was taken in Blount County, TN on the banks of the Tellico Reservoir of the Little Tennessee River on Oct 16, 2010.
Late Purple Aster, Spreading Aster – Symphyotrichum patens