Specialty Perennials
Specialty Perennials:Seeds L:Leontopodium
Specialty Perennials:Seeds L
Specialty Perennials:Seeds I-N
Price: $1.50
"Edelweiss"
A popular alpine plant with spreading rhizomes. The leaves are a bright silver-gray in color and have a woolly appearance with a thick mat of silver hairs. The flowers are surrounded by large attractive silver bracts that form a star-fish shaped "flower" with the small yellow tinted flowers enclosed in the middle. Native from the Alps of Europe. Best grown in poor soils that are enriched with lime. The surface of the soil should be covered with sand/small rocks. Easy from seed but plants can be short lived.
Zones 4-9. Surface sow small seeds on to moist seed medium and use 55-65F for three weeks, if no germination in 2-4 weeks move to 32-39F for four weeks. Grow plants out on the cool side. 50-65F.
80 seeds.