Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)

Starting in mid-May (NC)

Each flower is composed of a large

purplish pink flowers (RHS 62B)

The thick leaves make a durable clump topped in summer by stalks of light lavender flowers

Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum Starting in mid-May (NC)Liatris resinosa is a rarely cultivated blazing star, naturally found from Delaware southwest to Louisiana, where it grows in seeps, bogs, and wet savannas, often with Sarracenias. Although lumped for several decades with Liatris spicata, it has been re elevated back to species status. The tops of the thin, 20" tall spikes, which are clothed with needle thin green leaves, are adorned, starting in mid summer with light purple flowers held in