Watering. While shooting star tolerates summer dry spells, it prefers a consistently moist growing medium throughout the year. Regular watering once every five to seven days provides plenty of moisture for rapid growth and root development. The soil should never become soggy, or the shooting star plant may rot.
Shooting star grows best in partial shade, but can tolerate full sun in cooler zones and full shade as long as the soil is moist (but not wet) in the spring. It tolerates clay soil, but prefers humusy, rocky or sandy, well-drained soils.
The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. The petals grow backward and up, away from the reproductive organs of the plant. These dangle down from the center and may be a pale yellow, pink, or even soft purple color.
It forms basal clumps of lance-shaped leaves, from which 20-inch flowers stalks emerge in spring, covered with drooping clusters of 1-inch white, pink, or purple flowers. Normally planted in spring from potted nursery plants, shooting star has a slow growth rate and does not spread aggressively.. . . . .364011234053!]0000000000000009783314146503!]
