Blazing Star (Liatris gracilis) - 1 Gallon Gift while the flowers attract bees

while the flowers attract bees and butterflies

Planting: at least 3 to 4 feet

This low maintenance plant has showy blue flowers that bloom July to October

It grows about 6-12' tall and 4-8' wide

A husky flower stalk arises from the center of the rosette by summer

Blazing Star (Liatris gracilis) - 1 Gallon Gift while the flowers attract beesBlazing star (Liatris gracilis) is a short lived perennial in the Aster family whose native range includes most of Florida and a few counties in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Found in habitat that includes dry hammocks, oak scrubs, longleaf pine wiregrass flatwoods communities, mixed oak pine woodlands, grasslands, sandhills, and limestone outcroppings, blazing star cannot tolerate wet to slightly dry soil. At 4 6 feet tall, the