What is Aster (genus)?
{{redlinks|date=May 2020}} {{Taxobox |name = ''Aster'' |image = Aster-alpinus.JPG |image_caption = ''Aster alpinus'' |regnum = [[Plantae]] |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Asterids]] |ordo = [[Asterales]] |familia = Asteraceae |tribus = [[Astereae]] |genus = '''''Aster''''' |genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = Many, see text. |synonyms = * ''Diplopappus'' [[Cass.]] |}} '''''Aster''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s. It [[wikt:belong|belongs]] in the family [[Asteraceae]]. The genus once had nearly 600 species in [[Eurasia]] and [[North America]]. After [[Morphology (biology)|morphologic]] and [[Molecular biology|molecular]] [[research]] on the genus during the 1990s, it was decided that the North American [[species]] are better treated in a [[series]] of other related genera. After this split there are about 180 species within the genus.<ref name=flora>{{Citation| last =Brouillet| first =Luc; Barkley, Theodore M.; Strother, John L.| contribution =Astereae| year =2006| title =Flora of North America| editor-=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=20538| place=New York & Oxford| publisher =Oxford University Press| id =}}</ref> == Common species == Here is a list of some common species: * ''[[Aster alpinus]]'' - Alpine Aster * ''[[Aster amellus]]'' - European Michaelmas Daisy or Italian Aster * ''[[Aster linosyris]]'' - Goldilocks Aster * ''[[Aster pringlei]]'' * ''[[Aster scaber]]'' * ''[[Aster sibiricus]]'' * ''[[Aster subulatus]]'' - Hairless Fleabane * ''[[Aster tataricus]]'' - Tatarian Aster * ''[[Aster tongolensis]]'' * ''[[Aster tripolium]]'' - Sea Aster == Common North American species == Here is a list of some common North American species that are no longer in the genus ''Aster'': * ''Aster breweri'' (now ''[[Eucephalus breweri]]'') - Brewer's Aster * ''Aster cordifolius'' (now ''[[Symphyotrichum cordifolium]]'') - Blue Wood Aster * ''Aster divaricatus'' (now ''[[Eurybi