This week as you are out in the Arboretum, please take time to enjoy the Silphium perfoliatum, or cup plant, in the Medford Campus Main Parking Lot.
This native plant has a number of desirable qualities including: attracting hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, drought tolerance, and best of all, the stems are topped by large clusters of yellow flowers which will bloom through early October. This plant is also known as the compass plant because of the arrangement of the leaves. In addition, the cup-like shape of the leaves hold rain following a storm which the birds enjoy.
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