Silphium albiflorum Tripidium Hedychium 'Flaming Torch' forms a

Hedychium 'Flaming Torch' forms a huge mass of 6-7' tall stalks

1' tall stems appear seemingly overnight and the flowers burst forth like a giant orange starburst

one for which

taking years to build up enough to share

Silphium albiflorum Tripidium Hedychium 'Flaming Torch' forms aDid 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