Plate 1 figs. a–f · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Where it actually grows measured, from 118 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -34.0 °C | -27.1 °C | -20.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 10.5 °C | 14.3 °C | 19.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 251 mm | 808 mm | 1,735 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 10 mm | 46 mm | 147 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 118 research-grade observations of Aster flaccidus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 12 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Aster argunensis DC.
- Aster flaccidus f. glabratus Y.Ling
- Aster flaccidus f. gracilis J.Q.Fu
- Aster flaccidus f. griseobarbatus Grierson
- Aster flaccidus f. ovatifolius J.Q.Fu
- Aster flaccidus subsp. glandulosus (Keissl.) Onno
- Aster flaccidus var. fructoglandulosus Ostenf.
- Aster flaccidus var. glandulous Keissl.
- Aster intermedius Turcz. ex DC.
- Aster pulchellus Turcz. ex Herder
- Aster purdomii Hutch.
- Aster tibeticus Hook.f.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.