Marshallia caespitosa Barbara's Buttons Puffballs Plants & Seed
(mar-SHALL-ee-uh  kess-pi-TOH-suh)
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Marshallia caespitosa
Barbara's Buttons picture by cj, click on image for larger picture
Marshallia caespitosa (Barbara's Buttons) potted plants, $4.00 each plus UPS shipping.  please contact us by email with your address/zip code for shipping charges & availability on Barbara's Buttons potted plants

For other flowers visit the wildflower seed list or  the Potted Plant List to order seed copy the orderform or  email questions, comments, and orders to john@easywildflowers.com  

For other flowers visit the wildflower seed list , to order copy the order form or
 email questions, comments, and orders to john@easywildflowers.com

currently sold out of Barbara's Buttons seed

Marshallia caespitosa, Barbara's Buttons or Puffballs are a clump-forming native perennial occurring in limestone glades and dry prairies.  The 1 inch dense flower heads are white to pink-tinged, pincushion-like and dome-shaped atop long, rigid, slender stems rising to 16 inches tall. Barbara's Button wildflowers somewhat resemble some of the cornflowers (Centaurea). Barbara's Buttons wild flowers bloom in spring. Narrow linear-lanceolate leaves (to 4" long) mostly appear in basal rosettes, with sparse stem leaves being much smaller.

Native marshallia caespitosa wildflower plants occur naturally in limestone glades and dry prairies from Kansas and Missouri, South through Texas and Louisiana. (Asteraceae Family)

Marshallia caespitosa Barbara's Buttons wildflowers are easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade and prefers moist soils in part shade.

Barbara Buttons makes a good cut flower and looks best when planted in mass.  Barbara's buttons is a showy clump-forming native perennial which occurs in limestone glades and unglaciated prairie in several counties from Texas through Missouri. The dense flower heads of this aster (composite) family member are discoid (only disk flowers with no ray flowers). The numerous, tiny, white to pink-tinged disk florets are compacted into solitary, terminal, pincushion-like, dome-shaped flower heads (to 1" diameter) atop long, rigid, slender stems (peduncles) rising to 16" tall. Flowers somewhat resemble some of the cornflowers (Centaurea). Flowers bloom in spring. Narrow linear-lanceolate leaves (to 4" long) mostly appear in basal rosettes, with sparse stem leaves being much smaller.

Marshallia caespitosa Barbara's Buttons wildflowers are used in Limestone rock gardens, border fronts and wildflower/native plant gardens. and do not have any serious insect or disease problems.

The map below shows areas where wild Marshallia caespitosa Barbara's Buttons wildflowers grow wild but they can be planted and will grow over most of the Midwest and Eastern US.  
USDA plant hardiness zones 5 to 8.

For other flowers visit the wildflower seed list , to order copy the order form or
 email questions, comments, and orders to john@easywildflowers.com

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Please contact us by email with your address for shipping charges & availability on Marshallia caespitosa Barbara's Buttons potted plants

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The minimum seed order amount is $10, this can be a combination of different seeds.

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Native Marshallia caespitosa, Wild Barbara's Buttons plant distribution map complements of USDA, NRCS. 2001. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.1
  (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.