white wood aster
eurybia divaricata latin

It grows in the same habitats as the white wood aster we saw last week.

They are peaking now, while white wood asters have already begun to fade.

The white wood aster, which should be blooming now, is completely wilted.

Although our site is lean on wildflowers, it does have a profusion of white wood asters.

I love the white wood asters that grow like weeds in our woods and on roadsides.

White wood aster (A. divaricatus) is an outstanding dry shade plant.

White wood asters brush against your legs.

Habitat The White Wood Aster is a plant of open, dry, deciduous forests.

Top Threats The greatest threat to the White Wood Aster is habitat loss.

Down along the river you can find white clover and peppergrass, and even a brave, stunted white wood aster.

These sectors are also home to the white wood aster, the blunt-lobed woodsia, and Cerulean Warbler.

White Wood Aster Designated Threatened in April 1995.

White Wood Aster Scientific Name:

Another species commonly confused with the white wood aster is Schreber's aster (Eurybia schreberi).

Nesom White wood aster Heart-leaved aster Occurrence in Canada:

The white wood aster is sometimes used in cultivation in both North America and Europe due to it being quite tough and for its showy flowers.

White wood aster, Eurybia divaricata (Formerly Aster divaricatus)

In the United States, deer eat the White Wood Aster; given the high deer populations in southern Ontario, this is an additional threat.

Eurybia divaricata (formerly Aster divaricatus), commonly known as the white wood aster, is an herbaceous plant native to eastern North America.

The flower stalks are also densely hairy on the white wood aster, while they are only sparsely haired on Schreber's aster.

COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the white wood aster Eurybia divaricata in Canada.

Top Protection The White Wood Aster is protected under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA).

Several different plants are superficially quite similar to the white wood aster, but close examination as well as knowledge of the plants' differing habitats and ranges can readily distinguish them.

Q. The New York City Parks Department has planted a steep slope in Riverside park near 80th Street with white wood aster, redbud, dogwood and eupatorium.

Schreber's aster can also be distinguished by the more numerous teeth on the leaves, typically numbering 15 to 30 per side to the white wood aster's 6 to 15 per side.

The author searched this site and could not locate any Eurybia divaricata.

If more inventory work is attempted at this property, the chances of relocating Eurybia divaricata will be good.

Distribution Eurybia divaricata occurs in Canada and the United States.

Mont Rougement Eurybia divaricata was recorded on a dry and rocky slope in a sugar maple-beech forest at this location.

Mont Pinacle Eurybia divaricata was found in a rocky sugar maple and ash dominated woodlot (about 50 years old) that has undergone partial cutting.

White wood aster, Eurybia divaricata (Formerly Aster divaricatus)

COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the white wood aster Eurybia divaricata in Canada.

Frelighsburg Petit Pinacle Eurybia divaricata was located on the low end of the slope of a rocky hill bordering the bank of an intermittent stream.

The weevil Barypeithes pellucidus, which occurs in Ontario, preferentially consumes Eurybia divaricata in central Ohio (Galford 1987).

In Canada, Eurybia divaricata occurs in scattered populations in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario and in a few woodlots in southwestern Quebec.

The hostplants for the species include Eurybia divaricata, Symphyotrichum cordifolium, Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Symphyotrichum novi-belgii, and Inula germanica.

St. Blaise At this site, Eurybia divaricata was located in a sugar maple forest with associates of bitternut hickory, black walnut (Juglans cinerea) and large-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata).

Inventories have also revealed the presence of several rare or at-risk species, including plants such as American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), an endangered species, and white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata), a threatened species.

COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Melinda J. Thompson for wirting the status report on the White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricata, prepared under contract with Environment Canada.

Également disponible en français sous le titre Rapport du COSEPAC sur la situation de l’aster divariqué (Eurybia divaricata) au Canada Cover illustration:

COSEWIC Executive Summary White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricata Species information Eurybia divaricata is a fall-flowering herbaceous perennial.

The author has prepared COSSARO status reports for Vulnerable, Threatened and Endangered species in Ontario, including White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) and Virginia Mallow (Sida hermaphrodita).

Seeds of Eurybia divaricata are wind dispersed with migration rates of 0.2 to 0.3 m per year (Singleton et al., 2001). This is considered very low (Singleton et. al, 2001) and may explain why Eurybia divaricata has not colonized nearby woodlots which exhibit the same habitat characteristics.