Virginia Cup Plant
From our buddy Peter Heus comes this bold West Virginia cousin of the Cup Plant. Huge perfoliate leaves surround square stems. Single gold sunflowers tower over just about everything from mid June to August. Tough and durable! ...
Common Name: Cup Plant
Latin Name: Silphium perfoliatum
Habitat: Floodplain woodlands, fields
Blooms: Summer ...
perfoliatum (Cup Plant) is 4 to 8 feet in height, and has broad yellow leaves 6 to 15 inches long and flower-heads about 2 inches across. S.
Silphium perfoliatum
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Hardiness Zones:
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Indian cup's most common use by Native American Indians wasn't exactly medicinal it was used for chewing gum. When the top of a cup plant stalk was snapped off, a large blob of resinous sap would slowly ooze out and eventually harden.
In full sun, many meadow and prairie plants are relatively tough, but particularly dependable species include black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) and pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea).
(Rosinweed, Cup Plant)
Sinningia sellovii (Hummingbird Hardy Sinningia)
Solidago sp. (Goldenrod)
Spigelia marilandica (Indian Pink)
Stachys coccinea (Betony)
Verbena sp. And cultivars (Vervain)
Vernonia sp. and cultivars (Ironweed)
Yucca sp.
 See also: Sunflower, Solidago, Goldenrod, Daisy, Rudbeckia
  
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