In my Wildflower garden bed, I have
Twinflower, Rain Lily, Tropical Sage, Scorpion-Tail, Milkweed, Goldenaster, Skullcap,
Brown-Eyed Susan and Stokes Aster. The
Stokes Aster plant reminds me a little of the Starry Rosinflower plant – a
group of leaves with stems and flowers rising up 10”-24”. “Stokes
aster is named to honor the English physician and botanist Jonathan Stokes who
became well known for his work using foxglove (digitalis) to treat heart
failure” according to the University of Florida.
The foliage is evergreen. It prefers sun to partial sunny areas (my
Wildflower garden faces East). The
flowers are abundant and frequented by pollinators. The buds and flowers are quite lovely. Pinch of the spent flowers to encourage more
flowering. Otherwise, they are very low
maintenance. I’ve read that you may need
to divide mature clumps, but at two-years in my garden I have not had to deal
with that yet. The usual color, shown in
photos from my garden below, is a kind of lavender, but I have read that it has
been cultivated in other colors. It is
easy to collect the tiny seeds, if you want.
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Planted in July 2018, starting to
bloom in September 2018
Nov 2018 Stokes aster plants in various stages of bloom
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