Round-headed Blazing Star, Meadow Blazing Star, Rocky Mountain Blazing Star, Showy Blazing-Star

I planted the rhizomes last spring. They did so well, and the remarks from neighbors were strong and wonderful. I left the plant during...Read More winter and cut them back this spring. They are responding quickly to the trim and looking healthy. Look forward to the blooms and it should be by next month.

The best Monarch Butterfly nectar flower in our yarden. Amazingly the Monarchs hone in from all over the neighborhood on this particular...Read More liatris, even with just a few set out in the yard. (And we have about five different kinds of liatris growing here.) Native to the prairie states, this liatris likes a sunny, dryish well-drained site and plant it out of the way of rabbits and deer too. I collect the seeds in late autumn (which the birds also like) to start more by 'wintersowing' later in the season. Once very rare on the market, I am glad to see more mail order nurseries carrying the ligulistylis cultivar. I got my first little plants from 'Prairie Moon' listed in Garden Watch Dog.

Compare to other blazing star species around here in Minnesota, this species sure attracts more butterflies!

An Illinois native and butterfly magnet. So happy I added it to the garden.

After becoming acquainted with this plant, I wouldn't want to be without it in my garden. It takes up little ground space but produces lo...Read Morevely, unusual blooms that drive butterflies crazy.

It is easy to care for once established and in my z7b area, no pests have bothered the plants. It blooms mid to late summer for me. The flower spikes are so pretty, even before they bloom, displaying purple scalloped edges on the ripening flower buds prior to opening. Just a great all around plant and it comes back each year, producing a larger number of flower spikes with each successive season.

I've been growing it for close to a decade and wouldn't be without it. The Butterflies love to sit and snack.

Attracts monarch butterflies. Is so much more beautiful than the liatris gayfeather.

Liatris in general need more water than I originally thought when grown in Sparks, Nevada. Now that I have that figured out, they grow b...Read Moreeautifully. I like the more ragged heads of Liatris ligustylis better than L. pycnostachya.