Silphium integrifolium (Rosinweed) Soil-Normal Dalea purpurea or Petalostemum purpureum

Dalea purpurea or Petalostemum purpureum (Purple Prairie Clover) has a compact growth habit and beautiful purple colored flower lends itself well to landscaped groupings

If you are familiar with its cousin Wild Bergamot but want a shorter and tamer plant for your native landscape you have found your Monarda

Height 2-3'

or properties requiring intensive spatial analysis

One could find this plant with Arisaema triphyllum

Silphium integrifolium (Rosinweed) Soil-Normal Dalea purpurea or Petalostemum purpureumSilphium integrifolium (Rosinweed) is one of the mainstays of the tallgrass prairie! Rosinweed is named after the plant's sticky rosin once used by Native Americans as chewing gum, but from me, I'm fine "sticking" with my modern day gum :) Reaching around five feet high, a loose cluster of yellow daisy like flowers forms on single stems beginning in June that tower over the prairie. It thrives in prairie situations in almost any soil and one establish