Habitat: Found in moist to dry soils of prairies, pastures, old fields, roadsides, savannas and forest edges.
Wildlife value: Hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, moths and beetles are attracted to this plant due to the abundant nectar. Many other species will also use other plant parts for food, including the leaves, stems, roots, flower heads and seeds. Songbirds, especially finches, will eat the seeds
Notes: Sometimes people mistake this plant for the aggressive European bull thistle and try to eradicate it. Bull thistle blooms in the spring rather than later summer, both leaf surfaces are green rather than whitish undersides and have many more spines.
Earth Sangha Inventory
Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC, region. The Wild Plant Nursery is the most comprehensive source of local-ecotype, native plants in the Washington DC region, and the region’s only facility dedicated exclusively to this type of propagation. “Local-ecotype” plants are propagated from local, wild, naturally-occurring populations and are well-adapted to local conditions and for wildlife species that depend on the local forms, such as pollinators. Inventory is updated on a weekly basis so number may not be accurate.
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