Height              -  3 Feet

Light Needs        - Full Sun / Part Shade 

Soil Preferences   - Clay/Loam/Sand

Moisture Range    - Wet-Medium

Advantages        - Pollinator Specialist  / Supports Birds

Deer Resistance   - No

Bloom Time        - August-October

Bloom Color        - Purple

Root Type         - Rhizomatous

Growth Habit     - Running

Highly Important Host

 (3 or fewer types of host plants for species)

Aster Flowerhead Catepillar - Aster-head Phaneta -  X  -  Dimorphic Gray  -  Goldenrod Gall Moth - Speyer's Cucullia
Generally Important Host

(4 or more host plants for species)

Pale Banded Dart - Blackberry Looper Moth

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