Liatris aspera Bastrop Fairy Garden Plants with very nice silver-patterned leaves

with very nice silver-patterned leaves

Once hellebore flower stalks rise above the foliage and the flowers show color

on Hong Kong's Lantau Island

non-running clumps are composed of very narrow

We find that both moist and average-to-dry soils work fine

Liatris aspera Bastrop Fairy Garden Plants with very nice silver-patterned leavesRough blazing star is one of the shorter species in the genus liatris, topping out for us at 3' tall, when it bursts into flower for us in late June (NC). The zig zaggy stalks are clothed with wavy green leaves, held at 90 degrees to the stem. The flowers resemble large shaggy purple buttons along the top 2 3 of the stalk a wonderful garden specimen in our trials. This incredibly drought tolerant species is native through most of the central US, from