@KentPfeiffer
Kent, just so you know, this plant grows all across Kentucky - you'll find them in old homestead gardens and sometimes along the roadsides. They love it so much here, they never let go, no matter if you dig them up and toss them. This one came from my great grandmother's garden in Bardstown years ago, nearer to tiptonla than I am, but looks very much the same. Mine have been blooming for about a week, even those that I totally tried to kill last fall. Ugh. I don't mind a few of them, but oh my . . . they multiply quickly and often.
One time a local nursery was using them as spikes in the center of a planter display and I asked where he had bought them. He told me they came from his grandmother's farm, said he has hundreds of them. I swear they never die. But I do like them for background and for their height. Their foliage is pretty nice too.
