This low growing, fall blooming aster, with its sweet daisy-like purplish flowers, thrives in sandy soil and is a tough, low maintenance powerhouse for pollinators. It’s also a host plants for butterfly and moth caterpillars. This aster variety has several nicknames, including bristly aster, flax-leaved aster, and most charmingly, ankle aster, because it is known to tickle the ankles when you walk through it.
