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Aster shortii

Aster shortii

9.6
A plant that lives for many years and has blue flowers in the southeastern United States
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : Aster shortii
  • The garden was enhanced by the addition of several Aster shortii plants in bloom.

Examples

  • Wild populations of Aster shortii can still be found in protected forest areas.

  • You can find Aster shortii in many gardens across Georgia.

  • Botanists study Aster shortii for its ecological role in native habitats.

  • The Aster shortii blooms beautifully in the spring.

  • The garden was enhanced by the addition of several Aster shortii plants in bloom.

  • Wild populations of Aster shortii can still be found in protected forest areas.

  • You can find Aster shortii in many gardens across Georgia.

Synonyms

Short's aster
vsAster shortii
  • US
8.9

A plant that lives for many years with blue flowers like a daisy from the southeastern United States

is the same plant but uses a formal scientific name

Surface Forms

Aster shortii singular
Aster shortii plural

Morphology

aster + shortii

The first element 'Aster' clearly signals the plant genus, so a learner who knows 'aster' can infer this is a kind of aster; however 'shortii' is a Latinized species epithet (not a lexical English word) and does not convey descriptive meaning to a B1 learner. The taxonomic naming pattern is cross-linguistically recognizable, so the category is predictable but the specific sense remains non-compositional.

Etymology

Aster shortii gets its name from two parts: Aster, a word that means 'star' and points to the flower's star-shaped look, and shortii, the name added to honor the plant collector Short. So the name helps you remember it is a plant with star-like flowers named after Short.