Asteraceae FAMILY

Symphyotrichum cordifolium

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Symphyotrichum cordifolium is a herbaceous perennial plant with a more or less woody, rhizomatous rootstock. It produces clusters of 1 - 5 or more erect stems 20 - 120cm tall[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. , 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ]. Much grown as an ornamental, there are many named varieties. The plant is also sometimes harvested as a food and a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEastern N. America - Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia and Missouri.

HabitatRich, mostly mesic, rocky to loamy soils, open wooded slopes and bluffs, stream banks, moist ledges, swampy woods, border of beech-maple or oak-hickory forets, clearings, thickets, roadsides[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. ].