Silphium laciniatum (Compass Plant) gift-card and it is a host

and it is a host plant for skipper butterflies

It also makes a lovely cut flower

It prefers poorer

Texas Beargrass requires good drainage

or backdrop shrub

Silphium laciniatum (Compass Plant) gift-card and it is a hostCompass Plant is a tall, coarse, slow growing and long lived perennial. It has deeply cut, hairy leaves that usually orient themselves north and south. It features eye catching sunflower like flowers in the summer. The hardened sap of this plant can be chewed like gum. Compass Plant has a large, woody taproot. It is slow to establish and may not flower until the second or third year. It is native to Blackland Prairie regions and often grows with Big