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a star that gave up the sky to bloom in your garden instead
means A flowering plant of the daisy family with star-shaped, radiating petals, often blooming in late summer and autumn.
from From the Greek 'aster,' meaning 'star' — the same root that gives us 'asteroid,' 'astronomy,' and 'disaster' (literally 'bad star'). The flower earned the name from its radiating petals, which fan out like rays of light from a tiny sun.
- name origin
- Greek for star, after its radiant shape
- late bloomer
- flowers in fall when everything else quits
- monarch fuel
- feeds butterflies migrating thousands of miles south
- flower family
- shares roots with daisies and sunflowers
- folklore
- burned to ward off serpents in ancient Greece
for instance
aster novi-belgii — new york aster native to northeastern north america, blooms september-november
aster alpinus — alpine aster found in european mountains above 1,500m, purple daisy-like flowers
aster tartaricus — siberian aster cultivated worldwide, reaches 1.5m tall with lavender-pink blooms