A late-blooming native flower is always welcome, even if we had to bring it up here from the Coastal Plain. Climbing aster (Ampelaster carolinianus) is native of swamps, thickets, marshes, streambanks, freshwater tidal marshes and swamps - mostly in Florida but perhaps also in one south Georgia county (Chatham County).
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It is sold in Georgia, even up to my area of the Piedmont, where it is a rambling, late-blooming woody plant (sometimes called a shrub, sometimes called a vine). I have one in my garden where it scrambles through a wooden fence in search of protection from the deer.
Seek out and enjoy your #momentinnature as often as you can.
I live in Sugar Hill, GA, just north of ATL. I have blue and yellow native asters. They have struggled. I am not sure why other than maybe they do not get enough direct sunlight. They are in a partial shade area. Or maybe it is cool here.
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