| Description | A summer, free flowering Aster with violet-blue flowers and orange-yellow centers. |
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| Pronunciation | (ASS-ter)(ton-Go-len-sis) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-8 |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, resents soggy soils |
| Flowers | 1-2 inch, violet-blue flowers with orange-yellow centers, petals (ray flowers) will reflex, June |
| Leaves | rosettes of dark green leaves, hairy |
| Stems | spreads by stolons (stoloniferous) |
| Dimensions | 18 plus inches tall |
| Maintenance | divide after flowering to keep the plant vigorous, needs little support |
| Propagation | division |
| Native Site | Native to Western China. |
| Cultivar Origin | spreads by stolons (stoloniferous) |
| Misc Facts | Berggarten translates to mountain garden (syn Aster farreri 'Berggarten, Aster subcaeruleus) |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #40-Herbaceous Ornamental Plants (Steven Stills), #91-The Plant Finders Guide to Daisies (John Sutton) |
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