Oclemena acuminata(Michx.) Greene

whorled wood aster

WFO wfo-0000082836 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Oclemena acuminata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166656215

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Flowering n = 1,807 observations

Flowering observations of Oclemena acuminata by month
MonthObservations
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun0
Jul109
Aug837
Sep724
Oct135
Nov1
Dec1

Peak flowering in Aug, from 1,807 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 7 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 acuminatus Michx.
  • Aster acuminatus f. acuminatus
  • Aster acuminatus var. acuminatus
  • Aster acuminatus var. elatior Pursh
  • Aster acuminatus var. magdalenensis Fernald
  • Aster acuminatus var. pumilus Pursh
  • Aster latifolius Banks ex Steud.

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.