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Photo by JLBG taken at Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC
Pediomelum canescens 'Santa Rosa'
Eastern Prairie-Turnip
This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Shop Available PediomelumItem #: 9978
Zones: 6a to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
(aka: Psoralea canescens) Pediomelum canescens is a virtually unknown Southeastern US native (southeastern Virginia to Florida), despite being a close cousin of the better known baptisia. We're hoping a few of you will be willing to give it a try despite it not showing up in any of your basic books on garden worthy native plants. For us, Pediomelum canescens forms a 2.5' tall x 2.5' wide clump, comprised of a few heavily-branched stalks ending in flower spikes, whose small flowers are blue in bud, later opening creamy white. Our offerings are nursery propagated from an original seed-grown specimen from Santa Rosa County, Florida, where it grows in prairies and open woodlands on sandy soils. Because it forms an underground starchy tuber that was eaten by Early American Indian and European settlers, it's known as Eastern prairie-turnip.
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Other Attributes
Genus: Pediomelum
Flower Color: White/Cream
Leaf Color: Green
Bloom Time: Spring
Container Role: Fillers
Garden Themes: Rock Garden Plants
Other: Edimentals , Georgia native plants , North American Native Plants , North Carolina Native Plants , Plant Delights Introductions , United States Native Plants , Plants Retiring This Year