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Ruellia strepens - SMOOTH WILD PETUNIA
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RUE-STR-X
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Native wildflower with large lilac blue flowers and long blooming period.
Usually grows to 2' tall x 1' wide (can be shorter or taller up to 3', depending on the soil and moisture). Each flower doesn't last very long, but this plant flowers continuously from May till August/September. Flowers are about 1.5-2" wide, bigger green leaves, upright growth.
Native to eastern part of USA from New Jersey to Texas and Florida, see the USDA distribution map.
This perennial is very adaptable, but the ideal conditions are half shade and medium to medium-moist loamy soil (or garden soil with some organic matter). It will adapt to full sun (with medium moisture to moist soil), light shade or dappled shade (too deep shade won't allow them to bloom). Hardy in zones 5 to 8. It naturally occurs in woodland edges, thickets, along streams, border of ponds, moist meadows.
Deep and rabbit resistant, attracts hummingbirds and occasionally some pollinators - smaller long-tongued bees, long-horned bee, metallic wood-boring beetles, leaf-cutting bees, of Buckeye butterfly can feed on the leaves.
This wildflower has very nice and showy flowers, but they are along the stem and not on the top of the plant, which is a pity. It is still good low maintenance plant for naturalizing on the edge of your woodland garden, along the stream or moist meadow. Can be used in hummingbird or pollinator garden. Plant will self-seed, but not aggressively and each is plant is more subtle than thuggish. Good compapions are medium sized plants like Agastache, Asclepias incarnata or A. sullivantii, Penstemon digitalis, P. smallii, Echinacea purpurea, Physostegia, and many others including grasses. It is easy to grow plant, that is rarely bothered by diseases or pests.
Picture copyright : US Perennials nursery
Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
Ruellia strepens - SMOOTH WILD PETUNIA
$7.99
Native wildflower with large lilac blue flowers and long blooming period.
Usually grows to 2' tall x 1' wide (can be shorter or taller up to 3', depending on the soil and moisture). Each flower doesn't last very long, but this plant flowers continuously from May till August/September. Flowers are about 1.5-2" wide, bigger green leaves, upright growth.
Native to eastern part of USA from New Jersey to Texas and Florida, see the USDA distribution map.
This perennial is very adaptable, but the ideal conditions are half shade and medium to medium-moist loamy soil (or garden soil with some organic matter). It will adapt to full sun (with medium moisture to moist soil), light shade or dappled shade (too deep shade won't allow them to bloom). Hardy in zones 5 to 8. It naturally occurs in woodland edges, thickets, along streams, border of ponds, moist meadows.
Deep and rabbit resistant, attracts hummingbirds and occasionally some pollinators - smaller long-tongued bees, long-horned bee, metallic wood-boring beetles, leaf-cutting bees, of Buckeye butterfly can feed on the leaves.
This wildflower has very nice and showy flowers, but they are along the stem and not on the top of the plant, which is a pity. It is still good low maintenance plant for naturalizing on the edge of your woodland garden, along the stream or moist meadow. Can be used in hummingbird or pollinator garden. Plant will self-seed, but not aggressively and each is plant is more subtle than thuggish. Good compapions are medium sized plants like Agastache, Asclepias incarnata or A. sullivantii, Penstemon digitalis, P. smallii, Echinacea purpurea, Physostegia, and many others including grasses. It is easy to grow plant, that is rarely bothered by diseases or pests.
Picture copyright : US Perennials nursery
Pot size : square 3.5" x 5" deep pot
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