Silphium albiflorum Tripidium This good grower is topped

This good grower is topped with 16" flower stalks of lavender flowers in midsummer

1' tall stems appear seemingly overnight and the flowers burst forth like a giant orange starburst

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In June the 30" tall stalks arise

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium This good grower is toppedDid 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