Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorum

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

The 2' tall flower spike

Kalimeris pinnatifida) It's been hard to keep up with the name changes

ready to make an instant statement in the garden

Native to woodland slopes and along streams in southern China and Vietnam to 5

Silphium albiflorum Chamaerops Each clump of Agave potatorumDid 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