American Asters
Symphyotrichum
Plantae
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Annual or Perennial
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Sessile
- Breeding
- Seeds
- Status
- Common
About
This flowering plant grows in meadows and fields across North America. Its flower head is actually a cluster of hundreds of tiny individual florets.
Life cycle
- 1.seedA dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
- 2.sproutA first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
- 3.saplingA young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
- 4.matureFully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Symphyotrichum