Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Kalimeris pinnatifida) It's been hard

Kalimeris pinnatifida) It's been hard to keep up with the name changes

The 2' tall flower spike

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

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Kalimeris pinnatifida) It's been hardDid 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