Calico Aster

Description:

Belongs to the Sunflower Family. It has several small flower heads of white or pale purple ray flowers surrounding yellow or purple disk flowers are on one side of straggly, divergent branches. Flowers August-October.

Habitat:

Spotted along the Old Indian Hiking Tail at Tamarac NWR. It grows in fields and thickets.

Notes:

This is one of a group of closely related white, narrow-leaved Asters which presumably interbreed and difficult to distinguish.