Name: Rough Blazing Star, Rough Gayfeather
Brand: NVK Nurseries
SKU: 1840-PL50
Price: 5.0 CAD
Availability: InStock

Liatris aspera

A native blazing star with upright flower spikes that attract butterflies and provide excellent cut and dried flowers.

Rounded fluffy mauve-lilac flowerets on leafy flower spikes
Average flower spikes have 15-40 loosely-spaced blooms
Among the last Liatris to flower, L.aspera flowerets open roughly simultaneously
Narrow dark green grass-like basal leaves, 45 cm long

Size

50 plugs per tray

32 plugs per tray

$5.00

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Quantity

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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight

Full sun

Soil Moisture

Well-drained, Dry, Average

Drought Tolerant

✓

Hardiness Zone

4 – 4

Mature Height (meters)

0.45 – 0.9

Mature Spread (meters)

0.4 – 0.45

Growth Rate

Medium

Flower Colour

Purple

Foliage Colour

Green

Bloom Time

Fall

Habit

Upright

Deer Resistant

✓

Rabbit Resistant

✓

Pollinator Friendly

✓

Attracts Birds

✓

Ontario Native

✓

Landscape Uses

Border

Growing & Maintenance Tips

Commonly occurs in dry prairie soils, open woods, glades, meadows and along roadsides or railway tracks. Thrives in full sun and is tolerant of drought, summer heat and humidity and dry or rocky soils. Does not like a wet winter soil.

Notes

Native to Ontario