Purple Aster In The Summer Garden. Oriental Hybrids. Royalty-Free Stock Photo

Purple Aster in the summer garden.The plant Aster Aster is represented by herbaceous annuals and perennials, and it belongs to the family Asteraceae or Asteraceae. According to information obtained from various sources, the genus comprises between 200 and 500 types, the majority of them occur naturally throughout Central and North America. On the territory of Europe, the plant got in the 17th century, it was imported secretly from China by a French monk. The name Astra from Latin translates as`star`. About this flower there is a Chinese legend, which says that 2 monks decided to reach the stars, they climbed higher and higher to the highest mountain of Altai, many days later they were on top, but the stars still remained distant and inaccessible.