When you purchase one of our bareroot Symphyotrichum puniceum (or Purplestem Aster), you can count on receiving only the freshest of wild-grown plants from our shop! We don’t sit around twiddling our thumbs and let our inventory go stale; we do the work to pick out your order with care as soon as it’s placed, so everything is collected as fresh as possible. And what a plant it is! This stunner gives you lance-shaped leaves and light violet or violet-blue rays surrounding a yellow center, all growing atop purplish stems that can reach up to seven feet in height—imagine that bursting out of your garden bed! Don’t let its beauty fool you, though. This hardy flower has no qualms holding its own against tough weather conditions and pests.