Compass Plant Vintage Devil’s Darning Needles

Devil’s Darning Needles

Its basal leaves are usually 3-ternate and compound palmate

It forms a rosette of very narrow and pointed

herbaceous perennial with soft

Compass Plant Vintage Devil’s Darning NeedlesSilphium laciniatum A herbaceous perennial native to prairies, glades, roadsides, railroad right of ways, and other open, disturbed habitats in the Midwest and portions of the southern United States. A tall, sturdy, rough, bristly plant that grows on stiff, hairy, resinous stems to 9' tall. Features sunflower like flowers (to 5" wide) with yellow rays and yellow center disks. Flowers bloom in loose spikes on the upper parts of the plant in summer.