Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail feeds on the Totally Stoked Riptide, a new Stokes aster making its debut in 2025. Nearby is Truffula ...

Stokes’ asters have always been among my favorite native perennials though I have typically only grown them in small drifts of five to seven plants. Now at the Columbus Botanical Garden I’ve got more ...

As I wander the grounds of the arboretum throughout the month of May, my eye is caught by the blue flowers of the late spring-blooming plant commonly known as Stokes aster. Closely related to its ...

Stokes aster is a long-lived, low-growing perennial that flaunts remarkably frilly flowers for butterflies throughout spring, into summer and again in autumn. This native species (Stokesia laevis) ...

Stokes’ asters have always been among my favorite native perennials, although I have typically only grown them in small drifts of five to seven plants. Now at the Columbus Botanical Garden I’ve got ...

A clump-forming perennial with a basal rosette of foliage growing to 18 inches tall and wide. The flowers are produced on stems reaching well above the foliage that bear leaf-like appendages. The ...

Tell me about Stokes’ aster, please. I remember my grandmother planting seeds and having the most wonderful mounds of blue flowers all summer. Now that I have my own house, I’d like to have them, too.

Q: Could you help me identify this flower and tell me about the plant? I took this photo in my mother's garden in NC and think that it is stokesia, but am not positive. I am entering the photo into a ...