Dense Blazing-star
Liatris spicata
Pink, purple and white flowers from July into September, worked by brown-belted bumble bees and American bumble bees. It grows wild in 14 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 6 ft tall, 11 in wide
- Flowers
- Pink, purple and white, Jul to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A bulb or corm; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 4 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 46 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), American bumble bee (Bombus pensylvanicus), Southern plains bumble bee (Bombus fraternus), Lemon cuckoo bumble bee (Bombus citrinus)
Grows well with
Showy Goldenrod
Aromatic Aster
Common Wild Quinine
Orange Coneflower
Steeplebush
Scarlet Beebalm
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Southern ArrowwoodFacts from the Quercus record for Liatris spicata.