Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops rich soils and a lightly

rich soils and a lightly shaded location are ideal

Musella lasiocarpa has sailed through more than two decades of winters in our zone 7b garden

ready to make an instant statement in the garden

while the new sport has a bright yellow center resembling Yucca 'Color Guard'

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops rich soils and a lightlyDid 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