Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)

Starting in mid-May (NC)

Well-drained soils are best for all Salvia greggii

the clumps are topped with 20" spikes of tubular vermillion-orange flowers that tower high above the foliage

despite its typical painted fern leaf appearance

Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)Liatris resinosa is a rarely cultivated blazing star, naturally found from Delaware southwest to Louisiana, where it grows in seeps, bogs, and wet savannas, often with Sarracenias. Although lumped for several decades with Liatris spicata, it has been re elevated back to species status. The tops of the thin, 20" tall spikes, which are clothed with needle thin green leaves, are adorned, starting in mid summer with light purple flowers held in