Silphium albiflorum Tripidium Canna flaccida looks like a

Canna flaccida looks like a typical canna lily

spread the roots out horizontally and plant shallow

In June the 30" tall stalks arise

an amazing sport of our H

topped with a giant

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium Canna flaccida looks like aDid 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