The dark purple wiry stems of this Eurybia hold white daisy flowers in profusion in mid summer. These plants were formally known as Aster divaricatus and this is the newly classified name.
A new cultivar to the nursery in 2018, 'August Sky' really stands out from the crowd with its prolific late season display of starry violet-purple flowers with yellow centres on neat compact plants.
Producing masses of deep lavender blue daisy flowers in late summer, every gardener should know about Eurybia x herveyi as it thrives in partial shade in a fertile, free draining soil.