Common Name: Drummond’s Aster

Latin Name: Symphotrichum drummondii

Height: 3 feet

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: White, Light Violet to Lavender

Bloom Time: September - October

Water Use: Medium-Wet, Medium, Medium Dry

Soil: Mesic to Dry-Mesic conditions, Clay-loam, or some rocky material

Light Requirement: Full Sun, Partial Sun, Shade

Spreads via seeds

Host Plant: leaf beetles, larvae of fruit flies and leaf-mining flies, plant bugs, lace bugs, stink bugs, aphids, leafhoppers, walking sticks, caterpillars of butterflies, and caterpillars of many moths. 

Pollinators: cross-pollinated by honeybees, bumblebees, Halictid bees (including green metallic bees), Andrenid bees, miscellaneous wasps, Syrphid flies, Tachinid flies, Muscid flies, butterflies, skippers, moths, and other insects.    

Other Information: While the individual flowerheads are relatively small, the inflorescence of this aster is often quite large and showy during the autumn.