Product Description
Nice vegetative cultivar of native wildflower (nativar), with pure white flower and reasonable garden height of 4-5' x 1-2" of width.
Graceful candelabra look, great vertical structure, ornamental leaves arranged in whorls. Long-lived perennial with ornamental seedheads for the whole winter.
Flowers July-end of August.
Full sun to half shade, adaptable to most of the soils, medium to moist (acid, alkaline, chalky, clay, loam, fertile soil, neutral, sandy soils). Culver's root likes some moisture, so it benefits from occasional proper watering in summer droughts.
The wild form of Veronicastrum virginicum is native to central and eastern part of USA in states from Maine to North Dakota and south to the Florida and Canada.
Hardy in zones 3 to 8.
Deer and rabbit resistant plant, tolerant to black walnut.
Attracts short and long-tongued bees (honeybees, bumblebees, Mason bees, Green Metallic bees, Masked bees, and others). Other pollinators are Sphecid wasps, butterflies, moths, and Syrphid flies and other non-pollinating insects.
Best in flower bed, naturalistic or prairie plantings, cottage gardens, pollinator or butterfly gardens, rain gardens or swales.
Can be combined with many garden perennials or native plants like Agastache, Alchemilla molllis, Anemone x hupehensis, Aster novae-angliae, Echinacea purpurea, Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed), Filipendula rubra, taller Geranium (like 'Orion'), Helianthus, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis (daylily), Iris sibirica, Iris x lousiana, I. virginica var. shrevei, Liatris, Monarda didyma, Persicaria amplexicaulis, Phlox paniculata, Physostegia, Rudbeckia fulgida and Rudbeckia subtomentosa, Sanquisorba, Sedum telephium, Thalictrum...or even Hosta in half shade.
Great grass companions are Panicum virgatum and Andropogon gerardii. Great cut flower too.
Can be seen in Lurie Garden in Chicago.
Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
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