| Description | A tall wild flower with spikes of white flowers. Prefers full sun and moist soils. Adds a strong vertical element to the garden. |
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| Pronunciation | (ver-on-i-KAS-trum) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | average to moist, never dry |
| Soil & Site | average to moist, up land woods, prairie |
| Flowers | forms terminal slender spikes of 1/4 to 1/3 inch tubular-shaped flowers, blooms in July, white rarely pink |
| Leaves | forms a whorl of 3-6 leaves |
| Dimensions | 3-6 feet |
| Maintenance | may need stacking in a gardens, after bloom dead head and this will help eliminate some weight and the plant may stand up right |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | Native to north America. |
| Misc Facts | Roots been used medicinally as a cathartic. |
| Author's Notes | Have used this plant several times in gardens. It diffidently is hardy but has the problem of flopping. Pinching at the end of May through June may help control this. |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Black and Judziewicz)) |
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