WorldFloraDB - Aster amellus

Characteristics

A perennial herb. It grows 30-60 cm high and 35-45 cm wide. The leaves are grey-green. They are rough to the touch. The flower heads are mauve-blue with yellow centres.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

Spread

anemochory

Mature width (meter)

0.3 - 0.5

Mature height (meter)

0.5 - 0.6

Root system

rhizome

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It is frost hardy. It is best in well-composted, well-drained soils. It suits an open sunny position. It is damaged by drought. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.

More

Scrub and wood margins. Marshy places and lake sides, mainly on limestone soils.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	environmental use food medicinal
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Alexiteric (unspecified), Antidote (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Cancer(Cervix) (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Epistaxis (unspecified), Hemorrhage (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Hepatitis (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Trauma (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Erysipelas (unspecified), Hematemesis (unspecified), Lung (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Nervine (unspecified), Pulmonary (unspecified), Tumor(Groin) (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Plants can be grown by division.

Mode	cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	20
Germination luminosity	light
Germination treatment	stratification
Minimum temperature (C°)	-29
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-