The rose-purple blooms of cattail or prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) act like 5-foot-tall signposts for hungry hummers. And the plant puts out these sugary wares up to the first frost.

Swamp milkweed takes full sun to part shade, typically growing 3 to 4 feet tall. This rain garden plant is hardy in Zones 3–6 ...

Rising up to 4’ tall each autumn, its bright purple flowers act ... extending eastward into the prairie states and provinces. Blazing Star grows well in Boulder County, where dense clay soils make it ...

Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) is a purple perennial wildflower. Its tall, unbranched, hairy stalks blossom with spikes of dense purple floret clusters from July to October. Prairie ...

The tall flower spikes of blazing star furnish a vertical dimension to ... Because liatris are native plants, they fit in perfectly in a prairie garden or a meadow of native grasses.

The sea of tall, purple wildflowers known as blazing stars at ... The blazing star blooms in late July and early August. Other varieties of prairie plants also bloom in midsummer, preferring ...

This plant is the prairie native Liatris. Or, by its common name Tall Gayfeather, Kansas Gayfeather, Blazing Star or Button Snake Root. No matter what you call it, you should be growing it in your ...

Late bloomers such as rough blazing star (found in dry habitats), gentians, goldenrods, and asters are up next. Tall coreopsis, prairie dock and compass plant are on stage now. These are the tall ...

A four-acre field in Wheatland Township is once again home to the tall grasses ... the seeds of prairie plants such as swamp milkweed, wild quinine, shrubby cinquefoil, blazing star or big ...

prairie blazing star, royal catchfly, Savannah blazing star, spiderwort, swamp milkweed, whorled milkweed wild petunia. Grasses: big bluestem, little bluestem and prairie dropseed. All flowers and ...