Dodecatheon meadia (Primula media) - SHOOTING STAR (white form)
Charming native spring ephemeral with odd looking flowers. Disease free, deer and rabbit resistant. For it's qualities awarded by Award of garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK).
Basal rosette of watery leaves, nodding flowers, dies back after flowering. Great addition to you hosta, heuchera or epimedium bed.
Disease free, deer and rabbit resistant.
Recently the botanist changed the name to Primula maedia.
Blooming Time: April-May
Size: 10-12" tall x 6" wide
USDA Zones: 4 to 8
Culture: half sun, half shade, dappled shade to light shade; average soil enriched with some organic matter and average moisture. Clay-ish soil tolerant.
Moisture Needs: Medium-dry, medium-moist to medium-wet soils
Origin: Introduced by Jelitto seeds in 1995. In nature likes to grow on slopes, rocky loam, usually in high quality habitats - can be found in moist to slightly dry black soil prairies, hill prairies, openings, upland rocky forests, limestone glades and bluffs, along rivers etc. Common in some areas, while rare in others. Native to central and eastern USA, see the BONAP distribution map.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: not confirmed/ main pollinators are the native Queen bumblebees, followed by Anthophorine bees, long-horned bees and green metallic bees.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Excellent plant for half shade, shade or woodland garden, naturalization, shade parts of rock garden. Can be tucked anywhere among other plants, better in the front or middle of the bed.
Good companions include for example Actaea (Cimicifuga), Ajuga, Asarum, Aquilegia, Astrantia (in cooler regions), Dicentra, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Digitalis, Epimedium, Euphorbia amygdaloides, most of hardy Geranium and Geum, Gillenia, Heuchera and Heucherella, Helleborus, Hosta, Iris cristata, I. tectorum, smaller Lamium, Lathyrus vernus, Phlox divaricata, Phlox stolonifera, Polemonium, Polygonatum, Penstemon calycosus, Primula, Tricyrtis, Tiarella, Tradescantia, Uvularia, Viola or Waldsteinia and many others. Grasses like Hakonechloa or Carex.
Plus with ferns and spring ephemerals (Claytonia, Jeffersonia, Mertensia, Sanguinaria, Trillium) or with late blooming bulbs
Picture copyright : BillyBoy, Commons Wikipedia
Dodecatheon meadia (Primula media) - SHOOTING STAR (white form)
Charming native spring ephemeral with odd looking flowers. Disease free, deer and rabbit resistant. For it's qualities awarded by Award of garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK).
Basal rosette of watery leaves, nodding flowers, dies back after flowering. Great addition to you hosta, heuchera or epimedium bed.
Disease free, deer and rabbit resistant.
Recently the botanist changed the name to Primula maedia.
Blooming Time: April-May
Size: 10-12" tall x 6" wide
USDA Zones: 4 to 8
Culture: half sun, half shade, dappled shade to light shade; average soil enriched with some organic matter and average moisture. Clay-ish soil tolerant.
Moisture Needs: Medium-dry, medium-moist to medium-wet soils
Origin: Introduced by Jelitto seeds in 1995. In nature likes to grow on slopes, rocky loam, usually in high quality habitats - can be found in moist to slightly dry black soil prairies, hill prairies, openings, upland rocky forests, limestone glades and bluffs, along rivers etc. Common in some areas, while rare in others. Native to central and eastern USA, see the BONAP distribution map.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: not confirmed/ main pollinators are the native Queen bumblebees, followed by Anthophorine bees, long-horned bees and green metallic bees.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Excellent plant for half shade, shade or woodland garden, naturalization, shade parts of rock garden. Can be tucked anywhere among other plants, better in the front or middle of the bed.
Good companions include for example Actaea (Cimicifuga), Ajuga, Asarum, Aquilegia, Astrantia (in cooler regions), Dicentra, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Digitalis, Epimedium, Euphorbia amygdaloides, most of hardy Geranium and Geum, Gillenia, Heuchera and Heucherella, Helleborus, Hosta, Iris cristata, I. tectorum, smaller Lamium, Lathyrus vernus, Phlox divaricata, Phlox stolonifera, Polemonium, Polygonatum, Penstemon calycosus, Primula, Tricyrtis, Tiarella, Tradescantia, Uvularia, Viola or Waldsteinia and many others. Grasses like Hakonechloa or Carex.
Plus with ferns and spring ephemerals (Claytonia, Jeffersonia, Mertensia, Sanguinaria, Trillium) or with late blooming bulbs
Picture copyright : BillyBoy, Commons Wikipedia