Symphyotrichum sericeum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known as western silver aster and silky aster. It is native to the central plains of North America.
Symphyotrichum sericeum is an aster of rocky prairies, wood glades, and gravel hill prairies. It ranges from the eastern tallgrass prairies and west in the short grass Great Plains to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Texas and New Mexico into the central grasslands in Canada. Its occurrence is rare in the northeast ...