landscaping
I'm very into wild senna for many reasons. Senna hebecarpa has a long bloom time in summer, well over a month, attracting many bees and pollinating flies with its yellow flowers. As the seed heads develop, they elongate and become superfuzzy, and in winter rattle in their black slips. But the fall color is darn neat, too, with yellows and oranges glowing in the late-afternoon sun. Wild senna gets about 4 to 5 feet tall and wide and likes medium to moist soil in full sun. This is one perennial that you don't need to mass for fall color, due to its shrub-like size.
A favorite nectar plant for butterflies when it's blooming, Liatris ligulistylis puts on one of the most impressive displays for perennials — wouldn't you agree? It likes full sun in medium to moist soils, reaching 3 to 4 feet tall and 1 foot to 2 feet wide, blooming in mid- to late summer. Other Liatris species also do well with fall color, ranging from umbers and rusts to pure yellows, so you can't go wrong with Liatris.
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