Synonyms:

• Basionym: Aster cordifolius L.

Common names:

• beeweed  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• blue wood aster  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• common blue heart-leaf aster  (Source: Glea Cron ed2) - English
• heart-leaf aster  (Source: F Mich) - English
• aster à feuilles cordées  (Source: Aster Ontario) - French
• aster cordifolié  (Source: F NAmer) - French
• blaue Wald-Aster  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• hjärtaster  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Asters Gard Guide, as Aster cordifolius)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Manitoba]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama (n.w.), Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia (n.), Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia]


Cultivated (also cult.)

Adventive

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Norway, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Czech Republic

References:

1. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
2. Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
3. FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
4. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. 1991 (Glea Cron ed2)
5. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
6. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
7. Semple, J. C. et al. The Asters of Ontario (Compositae: Astereae): Diplactis Raf., Oclemena E. L. Greene, Doellingeria Nees and Aster. 1996 (Aster Ontario)
8. Voss, E. Michigan flora. 1972- (F Mich)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=434202. Accessed 4 julio 2024.