Plant Profile: Rough Blazingstar
Rough blazingstar (Liatris aspera)* are distinguished from prairie blazingstar, by me, at least, because the composite flowers are arranged in very distinct clusters that look like individual pompoms sticking off of the stem. (This is as opposed to continuous purple all down the stem.) They are also late-bloomers; these ones are just starting. They bloom from the top to the bottom; you can see below that the flowers on the top of the stem are in full bloom, but the ones further down haven't opened yet. We have many more days of blazing, starry loveliness to look forward to!
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