I just discovered this species growing wild in an open glade in Sadsbury Woods in southeast Pennsylvania. Some Highbush Blueberry shrubs ...Read Morewere around and the soil must be acid there and it was full of boulders and rocks. These plants were not large growing specimens and they were scattered. This species is native from Maine into Florida and inland up into Missouri and the Ohio Valley. It grows in dry to medium moisture soils and needs some full sun. The white fuzzy-looking flowers have no ray petals. It is a good pollinator perennial like its other Boneset or Thoroughwort species members. Some native nurseries sell seed or even plants. (The first photo in this file is not this species; I don't know what it is with sharp petals.)
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I just discovered this species growing wild in an open glade in Sadsbury Woods in southeast Pennsylvania. Some Highbush Blueberry shrubs ...Read More