Eurybia divaricata(L.) G.L.Nesom

White Wood Aster

WFO wfo-0000060736 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Sandy Wolkenberg
fig. a Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202572867
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. b Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191975124
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161147802
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Nathan T. Jones
fig. d Nathan T. Jones, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162947867
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. e Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160709124
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Violet T.
fig. f Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162419621
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Violet T.
fig. g Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160940931
Eurybia divaricata, photographed by Tom Pollard
fig. h Tom Pollard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190695100

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,531 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 2,531 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 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 boykinii E.S.Burgess
  • Aster carmesinus E.S.Burgess
  • Aster castaneus E.S.Burgess
  • Aster claytoni E.S.Burgess ex Britton & A.Brown
  • Aster claytonii E.S.Burgess
  • Aster claytonii var. claytonii
  • Aster corymbosus var. alatus W.P.C.Barton
  • Aster corymbosus var. corymbosus
  • Aster divaricatus L.
  • Aster elatus Bertero ex Steud.
  • Aster excavatus E.S.Burgess
  • Aster fischeri Kuntze
  • Aster flexilis E.S.Burgess
  • Aster stilettiformis E.S.Burgess
  • Aster tenebrosus E.S.Burgess
  • Biotia corymbosa var. alata (W.P.C.Barton) DC.
  • Biotia corymbosa var. corymbosa
  • Biotia macrophylla var. divaricata (L.) DC.
  • Linosyris divaricata DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. 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, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.