Silphium terebinthinaceum Prairie Dock Prairie Rosinweed Seed & Plants
(SILL-fee-um  ter-ee-bin-THIN-uh-see-um)
  
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Silphium terebinthinaceum, prairie dock or Prairie Rosinweed, is a striking and conspicuous element of the prairie and glade landscapes.  Silphium terebinthinaceum has tall six to eight foot, leafless stalks with open branched clusters of three-inch yellow flowers.  Prairie dock's huge heart-shaped basal leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant making a very attractive addition to the wildflower garden and are beautiful in dried arrangements.  Prairie Dock plants prefer rich average to moist soil in full sun or light shade.  This plant is a long-lived, drought-resistant perennial and its seeds are a food source for chickadees, sparrows and finches.

The large rough leaves of Silphium terebinthinaceum provide contrasting form and texture when planted with prairie grasses like little bluestem or Prairie Dropseed and showy native wildflowers like New England Aster, Sweet Black-eyed Susan, Royal catchfly, blazing star, Prairie Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Blue Sage, Culver's Root, Purple Meadow Rue, False Sunflower, and Showy Goldenrod).

Silphium terebinthinaceum seed germination is improved after a pretreatment of 3 to 4  weeks of cold moist stratification or when planted outside in the fall or early winter.

Native Prairie Dock wildflowers occur naturally on prairies, glades, and bald knobs from Ontario and Wisconsin south to Georgia and Louisiana and can be planted over most of the US.  Asteraceae (Aster Family)

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Silphium terebinthinaceum, prairie dock or Prairie Rosinweed 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.