Silphium albiflorum Tripidium In June the 30" tall

In June the 30" tall stalks arise

spread the roots out horizontally and plant shallow

taking years to build up enough to share

topped with a giant

one for which

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium In June the 30" tallDid 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