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Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
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A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
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A star.
Examples of aster in a Sentence
The china aster is now one of the most popular of summer and fall plants.
Very few species, like the white wood aster, will bloom still later in the year.
The Bab himself was in captivity first at Shiraz, then at Maki", and lastly at Chihriq, during the greater part of the six years (May 1844 until July 1850) of his brief career, but an active propaganda was carried on by his disciples, which resulted in several serious revolts against the government, especially aster the death of Muhammad Shah in September 1848.
Dr. Tina Aster, a renowned dermatologist, has joined the list of consultants at Lancome Cosmetics.
The official flower for the month of September is the Aster, which is a flower that looks like small daisies.
This particular flower is appropriate for wedding bouquets and arrangements, although most people do not consider the Aster to be a flower that can stand alone.
If you use the Aster in your wedding flowers you will be pleased to know that this particular flower is symbolic of love and faith.
Depending on the region where you have your wedding, you may be able to find Aster flowers in a variety of colors including red, pink, white, and purple.
It is similar to the alpine Aster, having large heads of purplish flowers in late summer, and remaining in beauty a long time.
Senecio Douglasii - A much-branched plant of 3 feet, with a shrubby base, and known as the Squaw Aster in N.W. America.
Stokesia - S. cyanea is a handsome hardy American perennial, 18 to 24 inches high, and of stout free growth, with, in September, large showy blue flowers somewhat similar to those of a China Aster.
In the south, in the Julianehaab district, even flowering plants, such as aster, nemophilia and mignonette, are cultivated, and broccoli, spinach, sorrel, chervil, parsley, rhubarb, turnips, lettuce, radishes grow well.
Like other salt marsh plants sea aster has several adaptations typical of plants found in dry places.
Aster frikartii ' Monch ' This plant has an Award of Garden Merit and is a wonderful hybrid Michaelmas daisy.
Years ago almost every garden would have had a Michaelmas daisy (aster ).
September's flower is the aster or morning glory.
Halo phytes.Plants which grow in very saline soils; e.g., Tr-iglochin iritimum, Salicornia spp., Zygophyllum cornutum, Aster Tnhum, Artemisia maritima.
In some of the valleys having an outlet to the south the flora is partly peculiar to the American desert, and such species as Purshia tridentata, D.C., and Artemisia tridentata, Nutt., and species of Gilia, Aster and Erigonum are found that are not met with elsewhere.
The following purely Caucasian species also grow on the coastfive species of spearwort, three of saxifrage, Aster caucasica, Dioscorea caucasica, Echinops raddeanus, Hedera colchica, Helleborus caucasica and Peucedanum caucasicum.
It sometimes bears hairs, which aid in the application of the pollen to the stigma, and are called collecting hairs, as in Campanula, and also in Aster and other Compositae.