| Scientific Name: | Aster x frikartii 'Monch' |
| Common Name: | Frikart aster |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Filler, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Oblong, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Purple, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves mid-green, alternate, sessile, oblong-obovate, 6-9cm long x 2-3.5cm wide; flower heads ~6cm wide with ~30 linear purple ray florets and compact yellow disk florets. | |