Prairie Dock Live Plant | Silphium terebinthinaceum | Native Pollinator Perennial Starter Plant

Add bold architectural beauty and outstanding wildlife value to your landscape with Prairie Dock, a greenhouse-grown starter live plant prized for its enormous basal leaves, towering flower stalks, and bright golden-yellow blooms. Silphium terebinthinaceum, commonly known as Prairie Dock, is a hardy North American native perennial admired for its dramatic presence and importance in prairie ecosystems. It is an excellent choice for pollinator gardens, prairie plantings, native landscapes, wildlife habitats, rain gardens, and naturalized areas. With proper care, it produces abundant blooms from mid-summer through early fall.

Prairie Dock thrives in full sun and prefers well-draining soil, adapting well to clay, loam, and rocky soils. Once established, its exceptionally deep taproot provides outstanding drought tolerance while helping stabilize soil. Massive rough-textured basal leaves remain attractive throughout the growing season, while tall flowering stems rise high above the foliage, producing numerous sunflower-like blooms that attract butterflies, native bees, hummingbirds, and other beneficial pollinators. Mature seed heads provide an important food source for goldfinches and other songbirds well into fall.

You will receive one healthy, greenhouse-grown Prairie Dock starter live plant, carefully packaged for safe arrival.

🌿 What's Included

• 1 Prairie Dock Starter Live Plant
• Healthy starter live plant
• Greenhouse-grown plant
• Carefully packaged for shipping

✨ Features

• Large, dramatic basal leaves
• Tall flower stalks with bright golden-yellow blooms
• Long blooming season from mid-summer through early fall
• Native North American perennial
• Attracts butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, and beneficial pollinators
• Seed heads provide food for songbirds
• Deep taproot offers excellent drought tolerance
• Outstanding architectural focal point for native landscapes
• Ideal for prairie, wildlife, and pollinator gardens
• Greenhouse grown for healthy establishment

🌱 Growing Information

• Botanical Name: Silphium terebinthinaceum
• Common Name: Prairie Dock
• Plant Size: Starter live plant
• Light: Full sun
• Growing Media: Well-draining clay, loamy, rocky, or average soil
• Water: Water regularly during establishment; highly drought tolerant once established
• Humidity: Adaptable
• USDA Hardiness: Zones 3–8
• Mature Size: Basal foliage approximately 2–3 feet tall with flowering stalks reaching 6–10 feet tall and a spread of 3–4 feet

🌼 Perfect For

• Pollinator Gardens
• Prairie Gardens
• Native Plant Gardens
• Wildlife Gardens
• Rain Gardens
• Naturalized Landscapes
• Prairie Restoration
• Large Landscape Focal Points