Symphyotrichum chilense(Nees) G.L.Nesom

Pacific Aster

WFO wfo-0000090638 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. a Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-30 / obs. 185470961
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. b Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189984725
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Liam Steele
fig. c Liam Steele, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166427060
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Rand Workman
fig. d Rand Workman, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 170415930
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147683349
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. f Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198031187
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. g joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139840349
Symphyotrichum chilense, photographed by Alex
fig. h Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144559758

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Flowering n = 1,183 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,183 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 11 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 chamissonis A.Gray
  • Aster chilensis Nees
  • Aster chilensis subsp. chilensis
  • Aster chilensis subsp. typicus Cronquist
  • Aster chilensis var. chilensis
  • Aster chilensis var. invenustus (Greene) Jeps.
  • Aster chilensis var. medius Jeps.
  • Aster invenustus Greene
  • Aster neesii Sch.Bip.
  • Symphyotrichum chilense var. chilense
  • Symphyotrichum chilense var. invenustum (Greene) G.L.Nesom

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.