Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Aster albescens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
This species is treated in Volume II as Microglossa albescens, but its proper place is in Aster. A plant raised from seeds collected by Beer, Lancaster and Morris in east Nepal in 1971 is figured in Bot. Mag., n.s., t.878.
A. albescens is a variable species, which, understood in a wide sense, ranges from the north-west Himalaya to Kansu.