Cup Plant

Cup Plant

Cup Plant

Species: Silphium perfoliatum
  • Here’s a tall NATIVE plant that serves as a fantastic backdrop for your perennial native garden

 

  • Resembles Sunflowers with 3” blooms in late summer – but is a perennial

 

  • 6’ H x 2’ W

 

  • Needs full sun; moist rich soils – naturally found on edge of ponds or open thickets or along railroad tracks

 

  • Reproduces by seed

 

  • Desired by all pollinators – bees and butterflies

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