Liatris resinosa American Voices Phegopteris Charlie Brown's Christmas aroid

Charlie Brown's Christmas aroid

Each leaf is composed of a wide

topped in summer with spikes of light lavender flowers

topped by a superb flower display

Liatris resinosa American Voices Phegopteris Charlie Brown's Christmas aroidLiatris resinosa is a rarely cultivated blazing star, naturally found from Delaware southwest to Louisiana, where it grows in seeps, bogs, and wet savannas, often with Sarracenias. Although lumped for several decades with Liatris spicata, it has been re elevated back to species status. The tops of the thin, 20" tall spikes, which are clothed with needle thin green leaves, are adorned, starting in mid summer with light purple flowers held in