Cup plant
Silphium perfoliatum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Resinocaulon perfoliatum, Silphium conjunctum, Silphium erythrocaulon, Silphium hornemannii, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- SILPER
- French
- silphe perfolié
- Czech
- mužák prorostlý
- German
- Durchwachsene Silphie, Becherpflanze, Verwachsenblättrige Becherpflanze
- Russian
- Сильфия пронзённолистная, Сильфия пронзеннолистная
- Ojibwa
- Asasa'weskûk
- Chinese
- 串葉松香草, 串叶松香草
- Japanese
- ツキヌキオグルマ
- Swedish
- skålört
- Dutch
- Zonnekroon
- Ukrainian
- Сильфій пронизанолистий
- Polish
- rożnik przerośnięty
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- 3D model: Silphium perfoliatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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