Asters

Asters Give Bluff Scape a Final Splash of Color While Hawks Soar Overhead

September 5, 2007 clifftop CliffNotes

When our bluff’s grasslands, woodland edges, and cropfields have all but given up for the season in September and are turning to burned-out colors, along come asters, giving the bluff scape a final splash of whites, purples, and blues before winter sets in. There are 120 species of asters in North America; 38 in Illinois; […]

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