Eryngium yuccifolium 'Prairie Moon'- RATTLESNAKE MASTER 'PRAIRIE MOON' (3' tall only)

Excellent seed selection with much shorter and therefor no flopping statue :

the species gets 5-6' tall, while 'Prairie Moon only 3' tall!

The same charming silver-gray look, strappy leaves, white thistle-like globe flowers. Pollinator magnet.

Suitable for smaller sunny gardens or smaller beds!

The dried seed heads were used as rattles by Native Americans, and tea made of its root was supposed to be an antidote for rattlesnake bites.

Blooming Time: June to July/August
Size: 3’ tall x 1’ wide
USDA Zones: 4/5 to 9
Culture: full sun, half sun, average drained soils. Very tolerant to many soils, but they always have to be drained as it will rot in waterlogged soil – it can adapt to sandy, clay, gravelly, alkaline or shallow rocky soils.
Moisture Needs: dry, medium-dry, medium. Very drought tolerant.
Origin: Shorter strain (so variable) selection of naive plant, introduced by Intrinsic Perennials. Wildflower to eastern United States from Maryland to Minnesota and south to Texas. Absent from West Virginia and some of the New England states. Naturally found in tall grass prairies (in different types of soils), savannas, rocky woods, thickets, and glades
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: attracts many species of insects that seek nectar - long-tongued and short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, skippers, moths, beetles, plant bugs (some bees may collect pollen too). Caterpillars of the Rattlesnake Master Borer Moth live in the stems.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)

Picture copyright: Intrinsic Perennials

Plant combinations: This is a great structural perennial that starts the season with sharp-looking rosettes and reaches its full height in the summer. Flowers for over a month; the whole flower to seed head effect lasts for 2 months (then the seeds start to fall out). Looks very good in flower borders or naturalized in prairies, prairie style plantings, native plant gardens or pollinator gardens. It looks great with many prairie grasses (Andropogon, Eragrostis, Muhlenbergia, Panicum, Sorghastrum, Sporobolus, Stipa) and other prairie plants like Allium cernuum, Asclepias tuberosa, Coreopsis, narrow-leaf Echinacea hybrids, also Echinacea pallida, Echinacea tennesseensis, E. paradoxa etc. Gaura, Liatris, Penstemon digitalis (and its dark-leaved varieties like ‘Dark Towers‘ or ‘Husker Red‘), Ratibida, Rudbeckia etc.

We also highly recommend blue flowering perennial combos, because these look really chic: Agastache ‘Black Adder‘, Agastache ‘ Blue Boa‘ and Salvia nemorosa hybrids (cut back after first flower flush); hardy Geraniums with blue flowers would probably do great job too.