| Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
| Life cycle: | Perennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic Dry Mesic Dry |
| Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F) |
| Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
| Plant Height: | 60-90 cm |
| Plant Spread: | 30 cm |
| Flowers: | Showy |
| Flower Time: | Summer Late summer or early fall Fall |
| Uses: | Cut Flower |
| Wildlife Attractant: | Bees |
| Resistances: | Drought tolerant |
| Propagation: Seeds: | Provide light Self fertile Stratify seeds: 4 weeks if sowing indoors Days to germinate: erratic Suitable for wintersowing Sow in situ Start indoors Can handle transplanting Other info: Seeds are short viable, best to sow direct after ripening |
| Pollinators: | Beetles Flies Bees |
| Miscellaneous: | Tolerates poor soil |
| AtaMaj | On February 28, 2020 | Transplanted plant all three tubers in the meadow, eastern inner acacia circle |
| AtaMaj | On February 27, 2020 | Obtained plant |
| dnrevel | On June 22, 2023 | Bloomed Three plants with mature seed heads doing well. Mailbox garden. |
| dnrevel | On July 18, 2022 | Bloomed Two plants now have lovely silvery blue seed heads in the mailbox garden. This is the second year of winter sown perennials grow from seed. Looking forward to how they overwinter and spread. |
| dnrevel | On June 5, 2022 | Transplanted Transplanted from overwintered large pots (kept in plant teepee outdoors.) Transplanted 3 large plants and three smaller ones into full sun mailbox garden. |
| dnrevel | On June 21, 2021 | Potted up Transplanted from WS container. |
| dnrevel | On April 5, 2021 | Seeds germinated Sprouted in WS container. |
| dnrevel | On January 2, 2021 | Obtained plant Winter Sowed on 1-2-2021. New seed from DnD Seed exchange. See notes for sowing. |
