Sharp Blazing Star
Liatris acidotanative · Central Texas
Sharp Blazing Star is a perennial wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 2–3 ft tall and 3 ft wide. It wants full sun and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms purple in Jul–Sep. Good for butterflies.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun (6–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 2–3 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Bloom
- Jul–Sep · purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, loam, moist, sand, silt
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Gulf Coast Prairies and MarshesWestern Gulf Coastal Plain
3 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.