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Definition of Heath aster

1. Noun. Common much-branched North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small starry white flowers.

2. Noun. Common North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small white flower heads.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heath Aster

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heater heaters heatest heateth heath heath aster (current term) heath family heath fritillaries heath fritillary heath hen

heath pea heath violet heathbird heathbirds heathclad heathcroppers heathen heathendom heathendoms

Literary usage of Heath aster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Westward to Minnesota and Missouri, this plant gives place to a near relative, the HAIRY heath aster (Aster ericoides var. ..."

2. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"(A. subulatus.) 37 a Bracts of involucre lanceolate; basal leaves narrowed into winged petioles.WHITE heath aster (A. ..."

3. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"... stems glabrous or stiffly hairy, branched mostly in inflorescence. WHITE HEATH ASTER (Aster pilosus)' p. 191 60. Flower heads mostly less than ..."

4. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"A. ericoides L. White heath aster. Petoskey, CF Wheeler; Bay Co., GM Bradford; shores of the Great Lakes. 2075. A. ericoides pilosus (Willd.) TC Porter. ..."

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