New England asters — like this one pictured along the roadside on an October day — are a late-blooming flower in the ...

When most folks think of fall color, their minds immediately picture the warm tones of autumn leaves — shades of burnt orange ...

In the Catskills, we have a bounty of native aster species to delight pollinators and gardeners alike. They bloom late in the ...

When we dug up a large area of our property to bury a propane gas tank this summer, I viewed it as an opportunity. The ...

IntroductionOctober has arrived, and we have begun to feel a hint of autumn in the mornings and evenings. This is the ...

This honeybee is working furiously on these asters for end-of-the-season nectar and pollen. "Winter bees" are physiologically ...

Hoary tansyaster is native to the western U.S. and an important food source for wildlife. It also looks surprisingly similar ...

A rare flower in Thailand mimics figs to deceive wasps while rewarding flies with a place to raise their young, revealing an ...

Because they’re blooming when other perennials are long past, asters provide a vital source of pollen and nectar for the bees and other pollinators we depend upon for successful crops of strawberries, ...

Ohio's native calico aster delivers fall color while providing critical nectar and pollen for late-season pollinators.

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” ...