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ASTERS
Horticulture
|Fall 2025
As autumn arrives, the stars come out
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THE ASTERACEAE is a plant family that includes many garden favorites known for spring or summer bloom, like calendula, coneflowers (Echinacea), zinnia, sunflowers (Helianthus), yarrow (Achillea) and more.
However, the family is named for a fall favorite: the asters.
The plants we call asters all once belonged to the genus Aster, named for the Latin word for star. However, in the 1990s many species were moved into other genera: Symphyotrichum, Eurybia and
This story is from the Fall 2025 edition of Horticulture.
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