Not sure which Silphium (Cup or Compass Plant) this is.
I think I got it several years ago from Plant Delights but it was at my previous garden
Aldo Leopold wrote
in 'A Sand Country Almanac' published first in 1949
"What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of buffalo
is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked"
A conservationist and ecologist he was lamenting the highway department mowing down these roadside flowers in his native Wisconsin.
In my garden this plant travels fast, so, not for everybody and it seems to resent drought at bloom time. Some years it is fabulous others not so. It is my tribute to Aldo though.
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