Common names:

• Tartarian aster  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• tatarische Aster  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• shion  (Source: F Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• zi wan  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• gaemichwi  (Source: Kulturpflanze) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide F NAmer)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Aga Buryat, Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk]
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin]
• CHINA: China [Anhui, Gansu (s.), Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan (w.), Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol (e. & s.), Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Honshu (w.), Kyushu] Korea


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee]

References:

1. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
2. Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
3. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
4. FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
5. Grubov, V. I. Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia. 2001 (Pl Mongol)
6. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993- (F Japan)
7. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964 (F USSR)
8. Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000- (F Siberia)
9. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
10. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
11. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants (Kulturpflanze) 34:81-82
12. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

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=5665. Accessed 4 julio 2024.