Alert Aster
SKU: AM013933
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Overview
'Alert' Aster is a dwarf variety, growing to only 12 inches tall. In late summer its' neat, compact, mounding habit is covered with brilliant purple to crimson flowers with striking yellow centers. One of the best perennials to insure late season blooms. (Symphyotrichum dumosum)
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Botanical Name
Symphyotichum dumosum 'Alert'
Growing Zones
Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8
Advantages
Native, Bee Friendly, Attracts Butterflies, Attracts Birds, Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Easy To Grow, Low Maintenance, Naturalizes, Cut Flowers, Mass Plantings, Small Spaces
Light Requirements
Full Sun, Half Sun / Half Shade
Mature Height
12" tall
Bloom Time
Late summer to fall
SKU
AM013933
Description
'Alert' Aster is a member of the famous dwarf aster group. Growing a dwarf aster is one of the very best ways you can assure some fall blooms for your meadow or garden. They are simple to handle and hardy as oaks. 'Alert' Aster stays short, and will fill it's space with a neat, low green tuft that bursts into bloom in late summer with deep purple to crimson, starry flowers. After about two years, you can dig up two or three plants, and divide them into twenty...and then replant yourself a huge patch, or have yards of edging.
The dwarf Aster dumosis (now Symphyotrichum dumosum) hybrids resulted from a cross between wild Aster nova novi-belgii, the much taller New York Aster, with another wild aster from the Pacific northwest.
