Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

Prairie Blazing Star (SE Minnesota Ecotype)

Prairie Blazing Star (SE Minnesota Ecotype)

$4.00 Sale

Liatris pycnostachya

Origin: Winona, Minnesota

Improvement status: Wild

Seeds per packet: ~50

BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED

Life cycle: Perennial

Also called "cattail gayfeather," prairie blazing star is native to the central US and more broadly the Mississippi River Valley region. It is a very popular native plant that has beautiful purple flower spikes which are beloved by butterflies, other insects, and hummingbirds.

Plants reach four feet tall and one foot wide. The showy purple blooms generally last from July through September.

Our seed comes from our friend Bonnie in Winona, Minnesota, who is a talented forager and wildcrafter, and very familiar with the flora of the Driftless region. This seed was harvested wild in the Winona area.

GROWING TIPS: Cold/moist stratify the seeds for 60 days, or fall sow. The plants prefer wet to medium soil and full-to-part sun.