Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

Local mentors like Cynthia Stitt, who runs a youth program at Gastonia’s Erwin Center, and Stacey Malker, former alderman for the town of Dallas, chaperoned kids and teens from local schools including ...

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