Symphyotrichum novae-angliae(L.) G.L.Nesom

New England aster

WFO wfo-0000115996 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. a Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-21 / obs. 164814868
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Cambridge Wildlife Arts
fig. b Cambridge Wildlife Arts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164195128
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Jody Shugart
fig. c Jody Shugart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182838522
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. d Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163591299
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by John Abrams
fig. e John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163454835
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. f Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177327553
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. g Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172900730
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, photographed by sudomir
fig. h sudomir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163221292

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Flowering n = 8,368 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 8,368 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 17 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 altissimus Moench
  • Aster amplexicaulis Lam.
  • Aster concinnus Colla
  • Aster muehlenbergii Tausch
  • Aster novae-angliae L.
  • Aster novae-angliae f. geneseensis House
  • Aster novae-angliae f. novae-angliae
  • Aster novae-angliae f. rosarius House
  • Aster novae-angliae f. roseus (Desf.) Britton
  • Aster novae-angliae f. spurius (Willd.) Voss
  • Aster novae-angliae var. monocephalus Farw.
  • Aster novae-angliae var. novae-angliae
  • Aster roseus Desf.
  • Aster spurius Willd.
  • Aster spurius var. spurius
  • Lasallea novae-angliae (L.) Semple & Brouillet
  • Virgulus novae-angliae (L.) Reveal & Keener

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.