| Description | A tall plant with masses of white flowers in flat-topped clusters. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, lightly shaded |
| Moisture | average, moist, wet |
| Soil & Site | found growing in wet swales and low thickets in the prairie |
| Flowers | white, 1" wide, 7-14 white petal-like ray flowers surrounding a yellow disk, borne on the ends of terminal branches in nearly flat topped clusters panicle (compound corymb), as ray flowers are lost the seed head and flatten bracts look like tiny stars |
| Fruit | achenes with whitish tufts of hair for floating in the wind |
| Leaves | lance shaped leaves, widen at the middle, taper to the base and are pointed, 6 1/2" long, less than 1 1/2" wide, smooth toothless edges |
| Stems | terete (slender and smooth, with a circular transverse section) central stem, light green, purplish red, or yellowish brown, maybe pubescent, rhizomatous |
| Dimensions | up to 4-5 feet tall, spreads by rhizoms |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | Native to North American Prairies. |
| Misc Facts | syn Doellingeria umbellata |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd), 153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info) |
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