Silphium albiflorum Tricyrtis strap-like foliage emerges to produce

strap-like foliage emerges to produce energy for next year's flowers

We have since found that a large majority of the seedlings also carries the variegated leaf trait

I returned home with a plant of Heuchera 'Caramel' and planted it beside other coral bells that were on trial

Oxalis palmifrons makes a great windowsill container plant

is a widespread US native that can be found on dry sandy/gravelly soils from Oklahoma west to southern California

Silphium albiflorum Tricyrtis strap-like foliage emerges to produceDid 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