Amsonia ciliata var filifolia Georgia Pancake Eryngium underground rhizome

underground rhizome

000' elevation in Los Lirios

white flowers in spring on 32" scapes

Trillium flexipes (white)

spreading at the rate of 8" per year

Amsonia ciliata var filifolia Georgia Pancake Eryngium underground rhizomeAmsonia 'Georgia Pancake' is a rare blue star, discovered by native plant guru Bob McCartney in a sandhills habitat in central Georgia's Wheeler County. This unusual ecotype, which will possibly be named as a new species, has soft, green, needle like foliage clothing the prostrate stems. We grow Amsonia ciliata 'Georgia Pancake' in the rock garden, where it makes a dazzling mat of bright green foliage to 2' wide. The foliage turns golden in fall