Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)

Starting in mid-May (NC)

This mutation of the southern Arizona/California native Agave simplex forms a 20" tall x 3' wide rosette of grey green leaves

the clumps are topped with 20" spikes of tubular vermillion-orange flowers that tower high above the foliage

Flowers are often bi-colored and quite beautifully snowflake shaped

purplish pink flowers (RHS 62B)

Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)Liatris 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