I have some pass-along plants from a friend. She didn't know what they were because the person she got them from didn't know.
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They're just starting to bloom.
I'm guessing they're some kind of aster, perhaps because of the time of year they're blooming. I've not grown asters before. This patch started as a very small clump in fall '16 that my sister grew off in a 3 gallon pot for a year. They then filled that pot so this spring she divided and planted them out.
If they're asters, should I have cut them back sometime during the summer to keep them from getting so leggy and gangly? Or is that the nature of the beast?