{"id":12009,"date":"2019-08-26T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=12009"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:59:16","slug":"woods-white-aster-are-woodland-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2019\/08\/26\/woods-white-aster-are-woodland-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood\u2019s White Aster Are Woodland Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Eurybia-divaricata-\u2018Eastern-Star\u2019-5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Eurybia-divaricata-\u2018Eastern-Star\u2019-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Eurybia-divaricata-\u2018Eastern-Star\u2019-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Eurybia-divaricata-\u2018Eastern-Star\u2019-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Wood&#8217;s Aster in Garden Setting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s late August and across the Southern Appalachian\nregion White Wood Aster (<em>Eurybia\ndivaricata<\/em>) are blooming. Their small daisy flowers are often\nseen blooming in shady woodlands in late summer. They start blooming a week or\ntwo later in the New England states and Canada (USDA hardiness zones 3-8). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a natural woodland Wood\u2019s Aster grows 1 \u00bd feet to 2 feet tall (2-3 feet in gardens). You can also identify them for their maroon (blackish) sprawling stems. The tiny long-petioled leaves are heart shaped and toothed. The smallish but plentiful white flowers measure 3\/4-1 inches wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This trouble-free woodland aster grows in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in part-sun, part-shade, or shade. Established plants are tolerant of dry shade. Good air circulation and an hour or two of morning sun help reduce any outbreaks of foliar diseases. Their numerous flowers attract bees and butterflies and deer don\u2019t appear to bother white wood aster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood\u2019s white aster is available from nurseries selling native plants. Try them in rock and woodland gardens, containers and in flower beds. To increase flower numbers pinch (or mow) back plants 1-2 times in late spring to early summer to develop a compact plant habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This woodland aster blooms in summer\u2019s heat and\nhumidity and is highly tolerant to disease and pest problems. In cultivation it\ntends to self-sow and may become weedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once established, white wood\u2019s aster handles\ndifficult landscape sites including clay soils and dry shade under trees and\nshrubs or on shaded slopes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> not to be confused with Wood\u2019s Purple Aster, aka New York aster (<em>Symphyotrichum novi-belgii <\/em>\u2018Wood\u2019s Purple\u2019) which bears 1 to 1 \u00bc inch medium violet flowers from mid-late September and grows 14-16 inch high plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s late August and across the Southern Appalachian region White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) are blooming. Their small daisy flowers are often seen blooming in shady woodlands in late summer. They start blooming a week or two later in the New England states and Canada (USDA hardiness zones 3-8). In a natural woodland Wood\u2019s Aster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,795,657,1218,707,1319,749,1037,1498,674,645,806,628,774,853,627,1476,625,843,1060,812,1059,601,729,777,630,706,646,113,1517,1157,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12034,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}