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Definition of New England aster
1. Noun. Common perennial of eastern North America having showy purplish flowers; a parent of the Michaelmas daisy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of New England Aster
Literary usage of New England aster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Certainly from Massachusetts, northern New York, and Minnesota southward to the
Gulf of Mexico one may expect to find the New England aster or Starwort (A. ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"Incomparably the most beautiful of the aster tribe is the misnamed New England
aster, which is common outside of New England, but rather rare in New England ..."
3. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"... hairs 17 b Bracts of involucre not with glandular hairs 19 17 a Ray flowers
40-60; leaves lanceolate; branchlets with glandular hairs.New England aster. ..."
4. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"A species more common than the New England aster and about equally desirable.
AC Herb.: Towner 344, Medora, Bismarck, ..."
5. New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons by William Whitman Bailey (1897)
"It is hard to tell which species is the most beautiful, but we are inclined to
award the palm to the New England aster par excellence. ..."
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