Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia 'Alba') - Garden.org

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General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height:	flower stalk up to 24"
Plant Spread:	6-12"
Leaves:	Spring ephemeral
Flowers:	Fragrant
Flower Color:	White
Flower Time:	Spring
Suitable Locations:	Alpine Gardening
Uses:	Will Naturalize
Resistances:	Deer Resistant
Containers:	Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous:	Goes Dormant

Common names

Shooting Star
American Cowslip
Indian Chief
Rooster Heads

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Location: Telly's Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-03-21

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Location: Hood, Alabama
Date: 2024-03-30

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Location: Northern Illinois (Zone 5a)
Date: 2013-05-11

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2010-01-27

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Location: Northwest Arkansas, my garden
Date: April 20, 2009
These have performed wonderfully in a planter for several years i

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Location: IL
Date: 2016-05-13

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-04-19

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Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-05-29

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Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Date: 2023-04-22

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Location: My woodland garden in Northwest Arkansas
Date: 2013-04-22

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Location: Roaring River State Park, Missouri
Date: 2006-April-16
Close up of Dodecatheon Meadia 'Alba' blooming in a colony at the

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Location: Telly's Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-03-21

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Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01

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Date: 2014-01-04

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Location: My garden in Northwest Arkansas
Date: 2013-05-17

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Location: Lake Bluff, Il
Date: 2012-05-07

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-04-26

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Location: IL
Date: 2016-05-02

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-05-21

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-05-06

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-04-26

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Location: My yard, Zone 6
Date: 2011-05-08

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Location: My yard, Zone 6
Date: 2011-05-08

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Location: Bogie Lake Greenhouse, White Lake, MI
Date: 2010-04-05

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Location: Telly's Greenhouse, Troy, MI
Date: 2010-04-05

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-04-30

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Location: IL
Date: 2018-06-12

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Comments:

Posted by Dodecatheon3 (Northwest Arkansas - Zone 6b) on May 13, 2013 9:47 AM concerning plant:

Every Mid-April to May I am delighted by this flower. It blooms for about a month & has a heavenly fragrance. Sometimes I think it smells lightly of grape soda & other times I think it smells like a fine soap. It's my favorite spring wildflower.

Even though this is a deer resistant plant, we have a large local deer population & they have eaten the flowers off of some of our shooting stars.

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