How to Grow and Care for Shooting star

Pretty Shooting Star is a wildflower that also makes a striking picture as a garden plant. This perennial blooms from early spring into August, and features a number of flowers with petals that look like they have been blown backwards by the wind, giving them the appearance of shooting stars.

Shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia) is a perennial plant that will grow to about 61 cm tall with its flower stalk in bloom. It grows from a basal rosette of leaves and produces a flower stalk in late spring that is covered with up to 40 uniquely-shaped flowers, ranging in color from white to rosy pink. The blossoms look like a display of shooting stars. Attracts a variety of bees.

Henderson's shootingstar is a North American wildflower that can be seen in moist meadows, prairies, and grasslands, as well as in oak and conifer woodlands. It prefers shady places. This perennial wildflower produces a number of beautiful, nodding, purple-pink flowers.

White shootingstar (Dodecatheon dentatum) is an herbaceous perennial that can grow to be 41 to 51 cm in height. White shootingstar is indigenous to western North America. This species is also known as the toothed American cowslip.

Dodecatheon conjugens−Primula conjugens is a thick-rooted perennial with narrow oval-shaped leaves around the base. It erects slim tall stems which are dark in color and are topped with inflorescences of one to seven showy flowers. The bloom period is spring to summer. Each flower nods with its mouth pointed to the ground when new and becomes more erect with age.