Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops mature plants of Borinda boliana

mature plants of Borinda boliana should top out at 50' tall

Musella lasiocarpa has sailed through more than two decades of winters in our zone 7b garden

Each clump of Agave potatorum 'Bluewinds' is composed of 6" long x 3" wide blue leaves

one of the finest members of the ginger family

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops mature plants of Borinda bolianaDid 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