October 01, 2011
Agalinis Is a very pretty native flower with a lot to recommend it for any meadow garden.
Unfortunately, it looks like a weed for most of the year, and may get exterminated from a meadow garden that’s over manicured.
Host plant to the buckeye butterfly, I’ve attempted re-introduction to those gardens where it had been eradicated… Without success, it doesn’t transplant, due to it’s quasi-parasitic relationship with the native grasses and lespedeza.
Winter picture of seedpods.
