| Scientific Name: | Symphyotrichum lateriflorum |
| Common Name: | calico aster |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Entire, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), White, Pink, Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Silver, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves green with purple underside, fall colour plum-purple; flowers long-lasting, white daisy-like ray florets with hot-pink disc florets. | |