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Common name purple salsify Family asteraceae Life cycle biennial Flowers lavender (May) Light sun-part shade From seed germinate at room temperature detailed seed-starting info below Seed ripens mid-June Raised from traded seed labeled "Tragopogon croculifolia", I'm pretty sure this is instead purple salsify - a wildflower with culinary uses. Not exactly suitable for the tidy perennial border, with its lanky upright growth, but welcome in messier beds. Probably biennial - our plants made nice healthy clumps in their first year, and sent up their flowerstalks in May of the following year. We'll see if it chooses to self-seed.

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: arbor zone

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Seed-starting details for this plant

2007. Seed from '06 trade. Baggy 70F (90%G, 4-9d)

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