Companion Planting & Garden Value: Liatris (Blazing Star)
Liatris spicata
Spacing: 1 per square foot. Mature height: 3-6 ft.
Pollinator & wildlife value
NC State Extension's plant toolbox lists it as highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and moths, notes it serves as a larval host, and specifically calls out that its dead winter stems are used by stem-nesting native bees: worth leaving standing rather than cutting back in fall. (source)
Plant these nearby
No well-established companions.
Keep these apart
Nothing it needs to be kept away from.
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Companion planting for Liatris (Blazing Star): which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.
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