A riot of purple and white asters grew amid a sweep of goldenrod in a meadow near the river.

There is also a New York aster (A. novi-belgii) and the late purple aster (A. patens).

Yellow and bronze chrysanthemums towered beside white and purple asters and black-eyed daisies.

He skirted a wide-boled aspen and rode through grass scattered with purple and pink asters, white sego lilies, and red baneberry.

The charabanc halted; the group stepped down into a meadow sprinkled with purple and white asters.

Aster Kumlienii Benke, a purple aster that grows at Busseyville.

"Thunderstorms fit you, Travis," she said, choosing to cross a large field covered with purple asters and sunflowers instead of paralleling the rain soaked wash that ran down one side.

But in the corners the torches of the goldenrod were kindling and a few misty purple asters nodded here and there.

And I could suddenly picture my own purple asters lounging about in the tall grasses of my barnyard garden.

Sunflowers and purple asters brightened the desert floor around it, their colors vibrant in the afternoon sun.