Eurybia spinulosa prophouse-winter-2028 A native aster with a

A native aster with a regional accent

over the edge of a raised bed

buttery yellow

and patient enough to have grown past needing the flower to do all the work

Additional photos courtesy of Oregon State University

Eurybia spinulosa prophouse-winter-2028 A native aster with aThis very rare aster, now placed in the genus Eurybia, is a true Florida endemic, native only to the moist pine flatwoods of the lower Apalachicola River. The plant is a botanical oddity: the clumping, foot tall foliage is narrow, stiff, and grass like, so unlike the leafy stems of an ordinary aster that a passerby might take the clump for a tuft of sedge. From late spring into early summer, slender flower stems rise above the leaves carrying clusters