Sun: Full, partial
Moisture: Medium-wet to medium-dry
Height: 1.5'
Bloom Time: July, August
Bloom Color: Pink-tinged white
Genotype: Winona, MN (shares a Level II ecosystem, Mixed Woods Plains, with Southeastern Michigan).
Indigenous interactions: Widely consumed as a food. In the Great Lakes area, the Ojibwa ate the bulbs in the spring.
 
This tidy, charming plant produces a tuft of long, narrow, grasslike leaves and a drooping cluster of pinkish-white flowers that attract native and domestic bees. Good in borders, rain gardens, or in front-yard native gardens.