Well, it was certainly worth the wait! The Blazing Star has started to bloom and it is glorious.
Blazing star (Liatris) is an American native perennial which produces tall bottle-brush stems of purple flowers in the late summer/ early fall. Although there is a number of Blazing Star plant in the Backwoods Forest Preserve, the MOSI gardens only gained these plants in the past year. These gorgeous flowers were planted in the Flatwoods Garden this past spring when they just looked like tiny clumps of grass.
Liatris is attractive to butterflies and bees and is currently humming with bee activity underneath the Olustee Longleaf Pine
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