Broadleaf Barbara's Buttons
Marshallia trinervia
Barbara’s buttons, a composite that dispenses with ray florets entirely — each head is a clean pincushion dome of pink-lavender disk flowers, faintly fragrant. This is the broad-leaved woodland species, happiest in moist shade along stream terraces.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1.2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, GA, LA, MS, TN