Featured Foliage

Shooting Star (Dodecatheon)
One of the most beautiful spring wildflowers on the prairie, the Dodecatheon, or Shooting Star, is a herbaceous perennial plant consisting of a basal rosette of leaves, from which emerges one or more stalks of flowers. Each flower has five petals that are pointed upward, converging at the base of the flower, which consists of a pointed yellowish tube with white and brown accents. The petals are white, light pink, or rosy pink. Dodecatheon needs good drainage and often-dry soils in the summer and winter when plants are dormant; in the spring it needs moist soils for best growth.

 

 

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