Liatris pycnostachya-Prairie Blazing Star April Flowering Spurge delights with clouds

Flowering Spurge delights with clouds of small but impactful

The leaves and stems take on an attractive reddish color in the fall

and inhaled as snuff to trigger sneezing

violet petals and six bright yellow anthers

Bloom Time:  April

Liatris pycnostachya-Prairie Blazing Star April Flowering Spurge delights with cloudsPrairie Blazing Star wows with densely packed spikes of vivid purple flowers that bloom from top to bottom and create a bold, vertical accent in the garden from mid to late summer. The flowers rise from a bed of narrow, grass like foliage, adding strong visual and textural contrast. This is a true pollinator magnet and a larval host to numerous species of small moths. Older plants tend to stand strong on their own, while plants in their first couple