Single flowers, lavender with yellow centers,
2-3 inches wide.
Midsummer to fall
Alternate leaves, oblong to oblanceolate, to 3 inches
long near the base, diminishing in size higher on the
stem. Leaves are entire to remotely serrate near the
apex. Both stems and leaves are lightly pubescent.
'Flora Delight' - By
Alan
Bloom from a cross of a dwarf form of A. thomsonnii
x
A. amellus'Sonia'.
Flowers have a pale lilac color.
It is 24 inches tall
'Monch' - 30-36 inches tall
and has a 36 inches spread.
'Wonder of Stafa' - Lavender-blue flowers, 2˝-3 feet tall.
Flowers are arranged in a flat plane.
Frikart's aster is an interspecific cross
made by Carl Frikart, a Swiss nurseryman, around 1920.
It is a hybrid of A. thomsonnii and A. amellus.
