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Bloom Color: Pink Blue-Violet Violet/Lavender White/Near White
Bloom Time: Mid Summer Late Summer/Early Fall
Foliage: Blue-Green
Other details: May be a noxious weed or invasive This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater Self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season
Soil pH requirements: 5.6 to 6.0 (acidic) 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
On Oct 13, 2009, Gradinara from Greenville, SC wrote:
This plant also grows in the Upstate of SC. I have several specimens of it in my gardens. Most, I've tried to get rid of, however I've left one in my newest mini flower garden on a trial basis. The flowers are pretty, however the seeds are very annoying. The jury's still out on whether I'll let it stay or not!
Ditto to Melody's note above. We often encounter the flowers on late summer walks on local trails along path edges both in shaded woods and along sunny meadow paths mown by a local horsemen's organization. So, it's a tough but gracefully airy plant with flowers floating on thin wands. It must be pretty deer resistant to flourish among so many deer, here, too.
From the way it grows, I think it would make a great "jack-in-the-box" plant, coming up through maidenhair ferns and edged in front with wild violets. Adding a few of the shade tolerant Aster divaricata in front to extend the season, along with a small "grove" of native deciduous azaleas in back that also flourish around here - Azalea prinophylla (syn. Rhododendron nudiflorum 'rosea') - would make this a 4-season corner of a "wild" garden (If deer are a problem, perhaps substitute mountain laurel which loves the northwest side of local hills).
On Aug 28, 2004, melody from Benton, KY (Zone 7a) wrote:
I know that some folks don't care for this plant, but it is an attractive little weed that adds pretty color in theLate Summer/ Fall when not much is blooming.
The fuzzy little seed pods stick to socks, clothing and animal fur...sometimes in great numbers.
Songbirds use the seeds for a food source.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Chicago, Illinois Benton, Kentucky Hi Hat, Kentucky Mcdowell, Kentucky Morehead, Kentucky Taylorsville, Kentucky Baltimore, Maryland Cary, North Carolina Oxford, North Carolina Hulbert, Oklahoma Greenville, South Carolina Richmond, Virginia
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