Silphium albiflorum Tripidium taking years to build up

taking years to build up enough to share

one for which

spread the roots out horizontally and plant shallow

topped with a giant

Hosta 'Age of Gold' is sure to become an industry standard for giant gold hostas

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium taking years to build upDid 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