Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorum

Each clump of Agave potatorum 'Bluewinds' is composed of 6" long x 3" wide blue leaves

while the new sport has a bright yellow center resembling Yucca 'Color Guard'

one of the finest members of the ginger family

although these have no impact on the growth of health of the plant

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorumDid someone mention a white flowering silphium? This odd duck in an otherwise yellow flowered genus is an endemic to calcareous (pH ~6. 8) gravely prairie soils in a couple dozen central Texas counties. The basal fuzzy green rickrack patterned leaves, which always align in a North South orientation, resemble a really funky head of stringy green hair topped by 2 3' tall flower spikes in late spring, each ending in clusters of large white asters, and