Eurybia hemispherica Baby Blues Asphodeline resembling the smile of the

resembling the smile of the protagonist characters from the movie Deliverance

named after This species was named after the late UC DAvis Evolution/Ecology professor

glaucous blue-green foliage with a dramatic dark purple border

each individual flower lasts only one day

a seedling selection from Iris 'Mary Bernard'

Eurybia hemispherica Baby Blues Asphodeline resembling the smile of the(aka: Aster hemispherica) Eurybia (Aster) hemispherica 'Baby Blues' is a Van der Giessen Nursery collection of the Southeast (Kansas south to Florida) native. This collection of this little known mesic to dryland species hails from the Black Belt region of Autauga County, Alabama. Our decade old garden specimen has formed a 2' tall x 5' wide patch of 2' long arching, thin, bristly stems, that branch toward the tip. Starting for us in late August, the