Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Silphium laciniatum – Compass plant: Silphium perfoliatum – Cup plant:
A native perennial I’ve loved since the moment I heard about it is the Compass Plant – Silphium laciniatum. I think my attraction was originally to the common name and then its striking height. It grows to about eight feet high in my garden some years, and its large basal leaves are said to point […]
Intriguing discoveries are still to be made, eve in shades of black, white and brown.
Rain has encouraged a growth spurt for some things while volunteer sunflowers and cantaloupe grow tall and strong.
When early pioneers were rolling their way across the tall grass prairies of North America, sometimes, in mid summer, they would come across a towering plant with huge basal leaves that often were oriented on a north-south axis. They called it a Compass Plant. In later years scientists speculated the leaves point that way to […]