Eurybia macrophylla, Big Leaf Aster, Quart Pot

Eurybia macrophylla, Big Leaf Aster

PS-Shade, Zone 3, Blooms Aug-Oct, 1’ x 2-3’, Med wet - Dry

Big-Leaved Aster gets its common name from its large, heart-shaped foliage, which has coarse-toothed edges reaching 8" across.. It's often planted for these large leaves as a shaded ground cover rather than for the sometimes sparse fall flowers. The flowering stems reach one to two feet in height, topped by blossoms with 9 to 20 thin, white-violet rays surrounding a yellow center. Eurybia macrophylla is common to northern woodlands, where it often forms a dense ground cover, spreading by rhizomes.

Best grown in moist, well-drained, sandy loams in part shade. This is a woodland species that will grow in shade, but best flowering and growth is in part shade.

Attracts bumble bees,mining bees,and the long-horned bee. Host plant for caterpillars of the pearl crescent butterfly, the northern cresecent and the arcigeta flower moth.