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Alert Aster

Symphyotichum dumosum 'Alert'

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ZONES  4-8 | Good to grow! Zone
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'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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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.

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Advantages
  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Birds
  • Native
  • Mass Plantings
  • Naturalizes
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Cut Flowers
  • Small Spaces
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant
Tolerates
  • Dry Sites
Light Requirements
  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade
Bloom Time
Late summer to fall

Additional information

Planting Time
  • Spring / Summer
Soil Moisture
  • Average
  • Moist / Wet
Soil Type
  • Loamy Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil
Flower Size
1-2" flowers
Mature Height
12" tall
Mature Spread
14-18" wide
Planting Depth
The base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in
Growing Zones
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
Native To
North America
Poisonous or Toxic to Animals
Can be a skin irritant.
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