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Dodecatheon meadia (Primula) - SHOOTING STAR
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DOD-MEA-X
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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).
Common in some natural areas, while missing elsewhere. Great addition to you hosta, heuchera or epimedium bed.
9" tall x 3-5" wide, basal rosette of watery leaves, leaf-less stem with nodding soft pink to whitish flowers (sometimes purple too). Flowers in April-May. Dies back and becomes dormant with early summer, so summer drought doesn't bother it.
This cute plant likes some shade and can be grown in full sun only in northern areas with constantly moist soil. So dappled sun, half shade, light shade or dappled shade are the best, adaptable to many soil types and moisture, including clayish soil.
But optimum is somewhat drained soil, with some organic matter or humus-rich soil. Medium-dry, medium-moist to medium-wet soils.
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. Native to central and eastern USA, see the BONAP distribution map.
Hardy in zones 4 to 8.
Deer and rabbits avoid it. Tolerates black walnuts. The main pollinators are native Queen bumblebees, followed by Anthophorine bees, long-horned bees and green metallic bees.
Recently the botanist changed the name to Primula maedia.
Excellent plant for half shade, shade or woodland garden, naturalization, shade parts of rock garden. Due it's smaller size, the best is to combine with smaller or medium-sized perennials or ephemerals and use it in the front of the bed.
Good companions are woodlanders like Actaea pachypoda, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Epimedium, Hosta, Helleborus, Iris cristata, Phlox stolonifera, Phlox divaricata, Primula, Polygonatum, Uvularia,... with ferns and spring ephemerals (Claytonia, Jeffersonia, Mertensia, Sanguinaria, Trillium)...or grasses like smaller Carex.
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright : BillyBoy, Commons Wikipedia
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Dodecatheon meadia (Primula) - SHOOTING STAR
$7.99
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).
Common in some natural areas, while missing elsewhere. Great addition to you hosta, heuchera or epimedium bed.
9" tall x 3-5" wide, basal rosette of watery leaves, leaf-less stem with nodding soft pink to whitish flowers (sometimes purple too). Flowers in April-May. Dies back and becomes dormant with early summer, so summer drought doesn't bother it.
This cute plant likes some shade and can be grown in full sun only in northern areas with constantly moist soil. So dappled sun, half shade, light shade or dappled shade are the best, adaptable to many soil types and moisture, including clayish soil.
But optimum is somewhat drained soil, with some organic matter or humus-rich soil. Medium-dry, medium-moist to medium-wet soils.
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. Native to central and eastern USA, see the BONAP distribution map.
Hardy in zones 4 to 8.
Deer and rabbits avoid it. Tolerates black walnuts. The main pollinators are native Queen bumblebees, followed by Anthophorine bees, long-horned bees and green metallic bees.
Recently the botanist changed the name to Primula maedia.
Excellent plant for half shade, shade or woodland garden, naturalization, shade parts of rock garden. Due it's smaller size, the best is to combine with smaller or medium-sized perennials or ephemerals and use it in the front of the bed.
Good companions are woodlanders like Actaea pachypoda, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Epimedium, Hosta, Helleborus, Iris cristata, Phlox stolonifera, Phlox divaricata, Primula, Polygonatum, Uvularia,... with ferns and spring ephemerals (Claytonia, Jeffersonia, Mertensia, Sanguinaria, Trillium)...or grasses like smaller Carex.
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright : BillyBoy, Commons Wikipedia
