blazing star
noun
1
archaic
: comet
2
: any of various plants having conspicuous flower clusters or star-shaped flowers: such as
a
: any of a genus (Liatris) of North American composite herbs with spikes of rosy-purple rayless flowers
called also button snakeroot
b
: any of several North American rough-leaved herbs (genus Mentzelia of the family Losaceae)
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Fifty varieties of plants are available for purchase, including four milkweed varieties, several grasses, native purple coneflower, cardinal flower, great blue lobelia, meadow blazing star, New England aster, prairie smoke, wild columbine and wild lupine.
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Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
Other native plant candidates for winter sowing, Schaller said, include bee balm, coneflower, goldenrod, blazing star, phlox and lobelia.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
Instead: For a long-lasting punch of purple in the garden, plant native purple coneflower or blazing star instead of purple loosestrife.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
The Mesic Woodland Edge mix should do better in shady areas and includes such species as common milkweed, bee balm and dense blazing star.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
But blazing star only have one stalk of purple flowers that bloom from August to October.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
Standing in the preserve’s Visitation Prairie, Morkes pointed to stalks of blazing star — his favorite prairie flower — thriving among tall grasses, false sunflowers and spikes of goldenrod.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021
Native prairie plants that can tolerate drought, including big bluestem, prairie milkweed, Illinois bundleflower and rough blazing star, will likely fare better than other species.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
Lovers of native flowers may already be familiar with some of the selections, including various trillium species, Virginia bluebell, wild ginger, cardinal flower, lobelia, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, blazing star and Allegheny spurge.
—Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
Other native plant candidates for winter sowing, Schaller said, include bee balm, coneflower, goldenrod, blazing star, phlox and lobelia.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
Instead: For a long-lasting punch of purple in the garden, plant native purple coneflower or blazing star instead of purple loosestrife.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
The Mesic Woodland Edge mix should do better in shady areas and includes such species as common milkweed, bee balm and dense blazing star.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
But blazing star only have one stalk of purple flowers that bloom from August to October.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
Standing in the preserve’s Visitation Prairie, Morkes pointed to stalks of blazing star — his favorite prairie flower — thriving among tall grasses, false sunflowers and spikes of goldenrod.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021
Native prairie plants that can tolerate drought, including big bluestem, prairie milkweed, Illinois bundleflower and rough blazing star, will likely fare better than other species.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
Lovers of native flowers may already be familiar with some of the selections, including various trillium species, Virginia bluebell, wild ginger, cardinal flower, lobelia, bloodroot, blue and black cohosh, blazing star and Allegheny spurge.
—Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
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