Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae

August 29, 2026 • 00:04:19
Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Fall Festival of Blooming Asteraceae

Aug 29 2026 | 00:04:19

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Show Notes

It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a festival to celebrate these wonderful fall bloomers. How fortuitous to come across clumps of Gregg’s mistflower (Conoclinum dissectum) on a fall day out in the desert scrub. What a marvelous plant! And by the way, its botanical name used to be Eupatorium greggii and that was fun because I could jabber about Mithradates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, not to mention the botanist, explorer and plant collector Josiah Gregg. Luckily for you I…

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