This herbaceous perennial has spreading mid green spoon-shape leaves in a rosette and forms a clump. It has magenta pink, cyclamen-like flowers that appear in clusters high above the foliage on a slender scape and appear from mid to late spring.

Hardiness zones 3 to 9

Dodecatheon meadia is naturally found in North America from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, Alabama and extending to eastern Texas.  It grows in damp grasslands or meadows and in the understory of woodlands. 

It prefers a well drained organic rich moist soil that is tending acidic in a semi-shaded, wind protected position and is frost tolerant but drought tender.  

Shooting Star is grown for its flowers and clumping habit. It is planted in small gardens along herbaceous borders or used in rockeries as a specimen. This perennial tolerates a wide range of climate zones and is suitable for cool inland regions establishing in 2 to 3 years from division. It may also be planted in large pots or planter boxes and requires a dry dormant summer period. ID 3092

Dodecatheon (DOH-dek-ah-THEE-on) meadia (MEED-ee-ah)

Primulaceae (PRIM-ew-LAY-see-ee)
Primroses