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claypa wrote:
Stormy, I think your aster: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7181899 is a "flat-topped white aster" or "parasol whitetop", Doellingeria umbellata. It's a great plant, they can get three feet high after a few years. I have some first-year seedlings from the native plants swap last year.

http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/doellingeriaum...
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=doum2

Here's a patch I saw in Maine last summer: