Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops The 2' tall flower spike

The 2' tall flower spike

rich soils and a lightly shaded location are ideal

Native to woodland slopes and along streams in southern China and Vietnam to 5

sure to be the conversation piece in any garden

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

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops The 2' tall flower spikeDid 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