The ‘Snow Flurry’ selection has a compact spreading habit and forms a ground cover with low arching stems with attractive gray-green foliage. This aster cultivar thrives in the sun and adapts to most soils. In early autumn plants produce frothy white flower panicles that draw the eye and beckon to a bevy of butterflies and other pollinators. This aster is also a host plant for the Pearl Crescent butterfly and the Wavy-Lined Emerald moth.
Heath aster thrives in dry, sandy and gravel soils producing a storm of small white flowers in late summer and early fall. The parent species Aster ericoides is native to the northeast US and occurs in prairies, dry rocky woods, pastures, and railroad and roadside right-of-ways. ‘Snow Flurry’ is an older aster cultivar of unknown origin and recommended by the Mt. Cuba Center as a valuable native selection.