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But under the shimmering dragonflies and a still-warm September sun, the slope I long ago slid down seemed only a steep meadow, overgrown with late-season blooms of chicory and white wood aster.

Recently, shots of a day lily, cup-plant, white wood aster, sweet gum, even trichaptum fungus on a log, were identified in less time than it took to say “I know what this is!”

The black-stemmed white wood aster was putting out the last of its little daisies.

The obvious choice might have been the white wood aster, handsome as a woodland native when planted in and around other perennials.

It grows in the same habitats as the white wood aster we saw last week.