Want to know why your hummingbird-friendly flower garden isn't working? It's probably because you haven't planted blazing star! (Okay, so there are other, more plausible reasons, but still blazing ...

This week I would like to feature another Kansas and Missouri native. This plant is the prairie native Liatris. Or, by its common name Tall Gayfeather, Kansas Gayfeather, Blazing Star or Button ...

Liatris, also known as blazing star or gayfeather, is a long-blooming perennial wildflower. It has highly unusual flower heads featuring tiny and colorful star-like blossoms arranged around a long ...

Another cut flower option is our native, Liatris, also called Blazing Star, which produces tall, narrow purple flower spikes that can grow 3 feet tall. Because the blooms are a great food source ...

What if “Mary, Mary, quite contrary” weren’t quite so contrary? What if, instead of being unpredictable and whimsical, Mary ...