I love the alternative name for this plant -- Gayfeather -- because the flowers look feathery. These blooms, unconventionally, open from the top down.
A popular garden plant, Blazing Star's flower heads appear on top of rigid stalks with grass-like foliage. It is native to sunny, moist meadows and swamp banks.
Blazing Star is low-maintenance and also makes a great cut flower. It attracts songbirds, hummingbirds, bumblebees, butterflies and moths.
Liatris spicata (Dense Blazing Star)
SKU: LS01-SS
$18.00Price
$18.00 per 1 Gallon
- Pollinator value: Very High
- Height: 3-4 feet (up to 6 feet)
- Spread: 12 inches; 1-2-foot spacing
- Light: Full sun
- Soil: Moist, adaptable
- Bloom: Pink, purple spikes of summer flowers
- Foliage: Deciduous, narrow, deep green
- Pair with: Joe Pye Weed, Sneezeweed
- Landscape: Best planted en masse; pollinator or butterfly garden, raingarden; good alternative to nonnative Loosestrife
- More photos and native range here
