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Re: Silphium laciniatum Geoff's reply

It was a dry brown.  There is no sign of recovery yet, no rosettes.   Geoff


-----Original Message-----
From: Hendrick-Kiphart <2nickels@bluebon.net>
To: prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Silphium laciniatum


>Survival. Geoff-was it a"wet" brown or a "dry" brown? Are there rosettes?
>TIM K
>
>Geoff Stanford wrote:
>
>> I'm in Dallas, TX.
>> We had a rainy end to our winter, and drought since then.
>> I have  a patch of S.lac. about 50 x 50 ft; it has been growing well
every
>> year from seed planted 14 years ago.  This year it all turned brown about
>> April, and never formed flowering heads.
>> Another patch a mile away failed the same way.
>> And the many stands on our primeval unplowed prairies at Penn Prairie did
>> the same.
>>
>> Any ideas, explanations, suggestions?  How have yours fared?
>>
>> Envirocordially yours    Geoff
>>
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