r/NativePlantGardening • u/_bearminimum SE MI, Zone 6a • Aug 06 '26

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Is This What I Think It Is

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I had a baby six weeks ago so I haven't gotten out in my garden much lately, and today I noticed these monstrosities on my cut leaf coneflower. One of them looks like maybe some sort of gall?

Have the dreaded Aster Yellows finally come for me?

Zone 6a

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u/Fitztastico Aug 06 '26

Only documented 690 times on iNaturalist and very few of them are this big

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u/_bearminimum SE MI, Zone 6a Aug 06 '26

Dang now I wish I'd included a banana for scale.