Silphium albiflorum Tripidium an amazing sport of our

an amazing sport of our H

topped with a giant

spread the roots out horizontally and plant shallow

1' tall stems appear seemingly overnight and the flowers burst forth like a giant orange starburst

In June the 30" tall stalks arise

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium an amazing sport of ourDid someone mention a white flowering silphium? This odd duck in an otherwise yellow flowered genus is an endemic to calcareous (pH ~6. 8) gravely prairie soils in a couple dozen central Texas counties. The basal fuzzy green rickrack patterned leaves, which always align in a North South orientation, resemble a really funky head of stringy green hair topped by 2 3' tall flower spikes in late spring, each ending in clusters of large white asters, and