Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Well-drained soils are best for

Well-drained soils are best for all Salvia greggii

it should have good winter hardiness

Flowers are often bi-colored and quite beautifully snowflake shaped

The thick leaves make a durable clump topped in summer by stalks of light lavender flowers

Starting in mid-May (NC)

Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Well-drained soils are best forLiatris 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