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Elephantopus carolinianus |
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| Common name |
elephant's foot |
| Family |
asteraceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z4-9) |
| Flowers |
pale blue (late summer) |
| Size |
12-24" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil, drought-tolerant |
From seed  |
self-seeds in our garden
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| Seed ripens | early November |
Native of the Eastern US. Dark green leaves, with small pale-blue ray flowers in August and September. We picked this up at a native plant sale years ago, and kept it in the main garden for a while. It's not really pretty enough for a display garden, though, so now we maintain it as a tolerated wildflower in our garden – I make sure to not completely eradicate it, but don't reserve a place for it in the garden. Its ready self-seeding tendencies ensure that we won't lose it altogether anytime soon.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Zach Burrell | Sep 25, 2008 | I have seen this plant in the wild and really enjoy it for its foilage. The basal rosette leaves lay really flat on the ground and thought it would be a neat ground cover. There is another species E. tomentose I think. It might be this one I'm seeing. |
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