beach aster

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   slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays; coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California

   Synonymsseaside daisyErigeron glaucous

   Broaderfleabane

Questions about beach aster

What does beach aster mean?

beach aster means "slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays; coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California".

What is another word for beach aster?

Close synonyms include seaside daisy, Erigeron glaucous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beach aster a common word?

beach aster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.