Symphyotrichum pilosum (Hairy white oldfield aster)

Hairy white oldfield aster, frost aster, white heath aster, heath aster, hairy aster, old field aster, awl aster, nailrod, steelweed

10/26/2012 · Dunstable Rural Land Trust Wildlife Refuge, Dunstable, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 4″ (15 × 10 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Asterales	Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies
Family	Asteraceae	The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers
Genus	Symphyotrichum	From Greek symphysis, “borne together or growing together, coalescing,” and trichinos, “hair, a single hair”
Species	pilosum	From the Latin pilosus meaning “hairy,” from pilus, “a hair,” thus covered with long, soft hairs