''Aster × frikartii'' (or ''Aster frikartii''), called Frikart's aster, is a hybrid of European Michaelmas daisy, ''

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'', and Thomson's aster, '' Aster thomsonii'' (from the western Himalayas). It was created by Swiss plant breeder Carl Ludwig Frikart. Its cultivars 'Mönch' and 'Wunder von Stäfa' have gained the

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, and are also considered by them to be good plants to attract pollinators.

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frikartii Garden plants Plant nothospecies Plants described in 1927 {{Astereae-stub