Lysimachia lanceolata 'Burgundy Mist' - LANCE-LEAVED LOOSESTRIFE 'BURGUNDY MIST'
Underused perennial, tough and adaptable plant, densely groundcovering soil and suppressing weeds.
Cultivar of native wildflower, ornamental for the whole growing season, with purple leaves and amazing burgundy-red fall color.
Spreads with rhizomes, but it's quite slow and stays in tight, ground covering clump.
The rich purple color fades in the summer heat to purple-green.
Blooming Time: June, with sporadic reblooing later on
Size: usually 1.5-2' tall and wide clumps
USDA Zones: 4 to 9
Culture: Full sun, half sun, half shade. Adaptable to many soil types, including clay, soil that are medium-moist, moist or even drier. The optimum is full sun and average to loamy soil with average moisture (medium) to medium-moist. Once established also drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry, drought tolerant
Origin: Introduced by GroWild nursery (Tennessee). Wild form with green leaves is native plant to most of the eastern half of USA, see the USDA distribution map.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: only small amount of pollinators, but flowers offer special floral oil, that attracts specialist bee - the short-tongued Melittid bee (Macropsis steironematis), that collects this floral oil and mixes it with pollen to form a pollen-ball that becomes the food of its developing bee-larvae.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep pot
Picture Copyright: US Perennials
Plant Combinations: Excellent filler or foreground plant, suitable for any flower bed, stream banks, bigger rock gardens or even bigger containers. This plant will look awesome with coarse-structured perennials and due its adaptability, it can be combined with many native and non-native perennials with bigger leaves - for example with Echinacea, Parthnenium, Rudbeckia, or even the most popular and used perennials like daylily (Hemerocallis), bearded Iris (Iris x barbata, I. x germanica, I. sibirica) or peonies (Paeonia).
Lysimachia lanceolata 'Burgundy Mist' - LANCE-LEAVED LOOSESTRIFE 'BURGUNDY MIST'
Underused perennial, tough and adaptable plant, densely groundcovering soil and suppressing weeds.
Cultivar of native wildflower, ornamental for the whole growing season, with purple leaves and amazing burgundy-red fall color.
Spreads with rhizomes, but it's quite slow and stays in tight, ground covering clump.
The rich purple color fades in the summer heat to purple-green.
Blooming Time: June, with sporadic reblooing later on
Size: usually 1.5-2' tall and wide clumps
USDA Zones: 4 to 9
Culture: Full sun, half sun, half shade. Adaptable to many soil types, including clay, soil that are medium-moist, moist or even drier. The optimum is full sun and average to loamy soil with average moisture (medium) to medium-moist. Once established also drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry, drought tolerant
Origin: Introduced by GroWild nursery (Tennessee). Wild form with green leaves is native plant to most of the eastern half of USA, see the USDA distribution map.
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: only small amount of pollinators, but flowers offer special floral oil, that attracts specialist bee - the short-tongued Melittid bee (Macropsis steironematis), that collects this floral oil and mixes it with pollen to form a pollen-ball that becomes the food of its developing bee-larvae.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep pot
Picture Copyright: US Perennials
Plant Combinations: Excellent filler or foreground plant, suitable for any flower bed, stream banks, bigger rock gardens or even bigger containers. This plant will look awesome with coarse-structured perennials and due its adaptability, it can be combined with many native and non-native perennials with bigger leaves - for example with Echinacea, Parthnenium, Rudbeckia, or even the most popular and used perennials like daylily (Hemerocallis), bearded Iris (Iris x barbata, I. x germanica, I. sibirica) or peonies (Paeonia).