Liatris pycnostachya Lavender Glowsticks Hippeastrum six-petaled flowers

six-petaled flowers

We spent decades hunting for this

so those of us looking for wet tolerant southwest plants

Southwest garden plants from the wild wild west love the heat

Liatris pycnostachya Lavender Glowsticks Hippeastrum six-petaled flowersOMG what a blazing star! Liatris pycnostachya 'Lavender Glowsticks' is an incredible new seed strain of prairie blazing star, discovered by plantsman Hans Hansen in Illinois. For us, the wonderfully sturdy stems top out at 6' tall in mid June much more rigid than any of the other forms of this species we've grown. Of the 6' height, the bottom 4' is clothed with the narrow, 5" long leaves, which circle the stems. The top 2' is laden with literally