Liatris resinosa American Voices Cercidiphyllum adorned with large tobacco-like leaves

adorned with large tobacco-like leaves edged in white

carneus does form tuber offsets

that thrive for us in both sun and light shade

glossy evergreen clump has new foliage that emerges with a pink flush and is topped in late spring with 20" arching spikes of large

where we found it growing in a low flood plain alongside Serenoa repens and Rhapidophyllum hystrix

Liatris resinosa American Voices Cercidiphyllum adorned with large tobacco-like leavesLiatris 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