When it blooms
In bloom: July to September
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 60–120 cm
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Dense Blazing-Star is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeOnce common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
American Bumble BeeSpecial concernBeeIt needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Photos: Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Dense Blazing-Star where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.