Transform your garden with the striking beauty of Dense Blazing Star (Liatris spicata). This low-maintenance native perennial features stately purple flower plumes that rise above delicate, grass-like foliage, creating a vibrant oasis for birds, butterflies, bees, and other important pollinators. Blooming from midsummer to fall, dense blazing star adds color, texture, and ecological value to sunny garden spaces.

Key Features:

• Striking Blooms: Tall purple flower spikes provide stunning visual interest and attract pollinators from summer through fall.
• Pollinator Friendly: A magnet for butterflies, bees, and moths, making it an essential addition to wildlife-friendly gardens.
• Wildlife Support: Produces seeds that attract birds while offering nectar for pollinators.
• Low Maintenance: Thrives with minimal care and water once established, perfect for sustainable gardening.
• Deer Resistant: Resilient to deer browsing, ensuring its beauty remains intact.
• Eco-Friendly: Grown non-GMO and free of harmful neonicotinoids, promoting a healthy ecosystem for pollinators and wildlife.

Available in sets of three, six, or 12 plants to suit gardens of any size.

Why Choose Dense Blazing Star?

Dense blazing star is a garden standout, offering both aesthetic appeal and vital ecological benefits. Its tall, showy blooms add vertical interest to flower beds and naturalized areas, while its ability to attract and support pollinators ensures your garden contributes to local biodiversity. Perfect for full sun spaces, this hardy perennial will return year after year with minimal effort.

Planting Tips:

1. Location: Prefers full sun with six or more hours of sunlight per day and well-drained soil.
2. Watering: Water regularly during the first growing season to establish roots. Once established, it requires minimal water.
3. Maintenance: Minimal care required. There's no need to deadhead the flowers, as allowing them to go to seed provides a valuable food source for birds. Leaving the stems standing in the fall offers overwintering sites for beneficial insects. If desired, cut back the stems in late spring after pollinators have emerged. 

For more information on planting, view our How to Plant Your Native Plants guide and other planting tips in the Garden for Wildlife Learning Center. 

Enhance your garden with the bold beauty and ecological value of dense blazing star. Its vibrant purple spikes and pollinator-friendly nature make it a must-have for any wildlife-friendly landscape.

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Returns: Due to the nature of our products, we are unable to offer order cancellations, returns or exchanges. In order to guarantee your satisfaction, all plants are covered by our 365-Day Plant Guarantee.

*To ensure your plants arrive healthy, we may delay shipments to certain areas during times of extreme temperatures, natural disasters, or other conditions that will impact the plants during transit

Sizing: At the time of shipment, our plants have a developed root mass and emerging foliage around 4-8” high.

Recommended container sizes (in width) for container planting:

• 12 In
• 18 In
• 24 In
• 36 In
• 48 In