Aster alpinus L., in Siberia it grows mostly in steppes, steppefied southern slopes and in the alpine belt of mountains.

A south-exposed right slope of the hill Mokhnataya Sopka, the Bugotakskie Sopki hills, Toguchin District, Novosibirsk Province, West Siberia, Russia. 12th Jule 1995. O. Kosterin.