Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Loads of it near the lagoons. It's not Sea Aster because the phyllaries are wrong for that (see later images) and also Sea Aster tends to have more flamboyant disk florets.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. It often grows near fresh water as it is doing here.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Sea Asster instead tends to have more widely open / showier inner disk florets.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. It's not Sea Aster because that has fewer, wider and mch blunter phyllaries.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Here the inner disk florets are dying-off - they darken as they age.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. The outer florets on this specimen are paler than the other specimen shown here. Whether they pale as the flower ages, I don't know!
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. A young bloom developing.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Sea Aster has more succulent leaves than this.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Loads of it near the lagoons.
Common Michaelmas-Daisy, Aster x salignus (24/07/2022) Widewater Lagoon, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Stems tend to go reddish and woody as the plant ages. Note the leaves clasping the stems.
