Silphium albiflorum Sarcococca Crinum 'Ollene' starts flowering in

Crinum 'Ollene' starts flowering in mid- June

the foliage emerges in mid-October and grows through the winter

the clumps are topped with 20" tall scapes (quite often branched) of lavender flowers

's 1979 trip to California's Strybing Arboretum

Larry Mellichamp hybrid of Sarracenia alabamensis and Sarracenia psittacina

Silphium albiflorum Sarcococca Crinum 'Ollene' starts flowering inDid 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