Silphium albiflorum Sarcococca the foliage emerges in mid-October

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

a hummingbird fiesta

7-way branched spikes of fragrant yellow flowers

Crinum 'Ollene' starts flowering in mid- June

Silphium albiflorum Sarcococca the foliage emerges in mid-OctoberDid 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