When it blooms
In bloom: August to October
How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 60–150 cm
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to
- Manitoba
What it feeds
New England Aster is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeThe bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBirdA bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
American Bumble BeeSpecial concernBeeIt needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetleOur native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
Photos: Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow New England Aster where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.