Silphium albiflorum Cortaderia long before dwarf mondo grasses

long before dwarf mondo grasses were popular

solitary green leaf and topped in spring with 1-3 small

A perhaps more natural appearance occurs after a number of years of increase when flower spikes are produced in a range of sizes

To make the flower show more attractive

since the stems are hollow and tend to fill with freezing water in cold winters

Silphium albiflorum Cortaderia long before dwarf mondo grassesDid 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