seeds: Doellingeria umbellata (tall white aster)
Includes a brochure with instructions on how to sow native seeds.
Stratification:
- C: (60) Seeds germinate after a period of cold, moist stratification. Mix seeds with a handful of damp vermiculite or clean sand (moist—but not wet). Place mixture in a sealed plastic bag and store in a refrigerator, NOT the freezer.
Plant information
"Doellingeria umbellata, known by the common names tall flat-topped white aster, parasol whitetop, or tall white-aster, is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Canada (from Alberta to Newfoundland), St. Pierre and Miquelon, and the eastern and north-central United States (from Nebraska and the Dakotas east to Maine and South to Mississippi, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.
Doellingeria umbellata is a perennial up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. It can sometimes produce as many as 300 small flower heads, each with as many as 16 white ray florets and 50 yellow disc florets.
This perennial grows in full sun or part-shade and moist or draining wet soils that are best slightly acid in reaction, but adapts to moderately acid or slightly alkaline reaction."
info from Wikipedia
seeds: Doellingeria umbellata (tall white aster)
packet 100 seeds stratification code C(60)