Gay Feather Prairie Conservatn Area | Missouri Department of Conservatn

Contents:

• GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)
• HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER BLAZG STAR PERENNIAL
• GROWG GUI: HOW TO GROW AND CARE FOR GAYFEATHER
• HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER FLOWER PLANTS
• GAYFEATHER, BLAZG STAR
• GAY-FEATHER: MEANG AND DEFN OF
• GAY FEATHER PRAIRIE CONSERVATN AREA
• GAYFEATHER FLOWER: 6 GREAT REASONS FOR ADDG LIATRIS TO YOUR GARN
• GAY-FEATHER
• GAYFEATHER SEEDS

GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)

Gayfeather (Liatris spita) is a flowerg perennial plant wh tall spik of showy purple or whe flowers. The imprsive gayfeather flowers mean the plant is ial for plantg dividually or mass plantg along borrs full sun.

HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER BLAZG STAR PERENNIAL

Gayfeather plants have immense ornamental value as easy-re, low-matenance summer plants.

Gayfeather (Liatris spita) flowers bloom throughout the summer and may last until fall.

GROWG GUI: HOW TO GROW AND CARE FOR GAYFEATHER

This article is a plete gui to growg gayfeather plants. How to Care for Gayfeather (Liatris spita).

To re for gayfeather, grow the blazg star plant the sunnit part of your garn.

Plant the gayfeather bulbs light, well-drag, fertile soil. Gayfeather don’t need addnal fertilizg. Gayfeather (Blazg Star) Facts.

HOW TO GROW GAYFEATHER FLOWER PLANTS

Liatris spita (gayfeather or blazg star) flowers look betiful pecially when planted en masse. Gayfeather (Liatris spita) belongs to the perennial flowerg plant fay Asteraceae. Native to eastern North Ameri, gayfeather plants grow on prairi and meadows.

GAYFEATHER, BLAZG STAR

Outdoors, gayfeather thriv USDA zon 3 through 9. Gayfeather also grows well heat and humid ndns. Other mon nam for gayfeather clu ‘blazg star, ’ ‘nse blazg star, ’ ‘button snakewort, ’ ‘spike gayfeather, ’ and ‘Kansas gayfeather.

The length of gayfeather’s flowerg stems pends on the cultivar.

GAY-FEATHER: MEANG AND DEFN OF

For example, the gayfeather ‘Kobold’ wh pk flowers grow around 1 – 2 ft. The gayfeather ‘Alba’ wh s whe flowerg spik grows up to 3 ft. Gayfeather Flowers.

Gayfeather flower spik n be purple, pk or whe and look great floral arrangements. Gayfeather flowers are spectacular when they bloom om July until September.

GAY FEATHER PRAIRIE CONSERVATN AREA

The benef of growg gayfeather flowers your garn is that they attract pollators. Butterfli, native be, and hummgbirds are regular visors to gayfeather plants when they’re bloom.

Ornamental gayfeather flowers are betiful h cut or dried floral arrangements.

Frh cut gayfeather flowers last for up to two weeks a vase of water.

GAYFEATHER FLOWER: 6 GREAT REASONS FOR ADDG LIATRIS TO YOUR GARN

You n also dry gayfeather flowers to make the blooms last even longer. Before cuttg flowers om gayfeather plants, ’s bt to ensure that at least two-thirds of the flowerg spike is bloom. Gayfeather (Liatris spita) Growg Gui.

GAY-FEATHER

Let’s look more tail at how to grow gayfeather clumpg perennial plants your sunny backyard.

Where to Plant Gayfeather.

The bt place to plant gayfeather bulbs (also lled rms) is a lotn your garn that gets plenty of sunshe. You n plant gayfeather mixed flower beds, flowerg borrs, ttage garns, or rmal flower garns.

GAYFEATHER SEEDS

Excellent pann plants for gayfeather are other tall flowerg plants such as black-eyed San and echacea.

Gayfeather also grows well alongsi ornamental grass, daylili, and other plants om the aster fay.