Eurybia spinulosa prophouse-winter-2028 where steady moisture brings out

where steady moisture brings out the fine texture

though they yield more modestly

this small-leaved form was selected for hardiness

over the edge of a raised bed

The black seed pods that follow the flowers rattle into fall and add a second season of interest

Eurybia spinulosa prophouse-winter-2028 where steady moisture brings outThis very rare aster, now placed in the genus Eurybia, is a true Florida endemic, native only to the moist pine flatwoods of the lower Apalachicola River. The plant is a botanical oddity: the clumping, foot tall foliage is narrow, stiff, and grass like, so unlike the leafy stems of an ordinary aster that a passerby might take the clump for a tuft of sedge. From late spring into early summer, slender flower stems rise above the leaves carrying clusters