White-top Aster

Not readily available, but beautiful.



Wildflower garden. Retain if in the landscape.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Can sucker and spread.

Mesic-wet flatwoods, cutthroat seep.

• Showy flowers
• Appreciated by a variety of pollinators including native bees.  The following Hymenoptera families and species were observed visiting flowers of Oclemena reticulata at Archbold Biological Station: [7]
• Apidae: Apis mellifera, honeybee
• Megachilidae: Dianthidium floridiense, Florida pebble bee