Kosteletzkya virginica ACE Basin Illicium The name is translated to

The name is translated to "Soaring Eagle's Shadow"

As with all Sarracenia leucophylla forms

which arise in late June (don't call us in May)

starting in late May

grey-leaved salvia

Kosteletzkya virginica ACE Basin Illicium The name is translated to(aka: Kosteletzkya pentacarpos) Named for the Bohemian botanist V. F. Kosteletzky, this fabulous, upright native (Virginia to Mississippi) perennial mallow, similar to lavatera, emerges from dormancy in late spring and the thick stems quickly zoom to 5' tall. Each kosteletzkya stem is clothed with fuzzy, light green, hibiscus like leaves. In midsummer, sea shore mallow is clothed with hundreds of 2" clear pink hibiscus like flowers. Sea shore mallow