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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Partial Sun - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Soil
Moist loam, sand, or clay.
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov
Plant Type
Perennials, Herbaceous Perennial, Native Plant, Wildflower, Herb
Lifespan
Perennial
Plant Height
1-3 ft.
Flower
Thistle like aster flowers that lack rays. It has numerous small, fluffy, tubular, blue-purple flowers (to 1/ 2” across) with discoid heads that bloom from July to October in dense flat topped terminal clusters (corymbs). In terminal, branched, clusters of small heads of 5 mm diam. bluish-purple, tubular. Blooms from July to October.
Fruit
Displays from August to November
Benefits
Attracts
Birds
Butterflies
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Taxonomy
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Conoclinium
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