'Lilyturf' or 'Monkey Grass' (lir-RYE-oh-pee: mus-KAR-ee) Ruscaceae:
Plants grow 6 to 10 inches tall with grassy, thin, flat foliage with spiky flower clusters just above the foliage. The flowers are lavender blue and this selection produces a showy edging in part shade. Slowly spreading clumps that are not invasive like Liriope spicata. This species has upright, showy flower spikes with tiered whorls of lavender-blue flowers, that are some-what like narrow grape hyacinth flowers. Evergreen foliage in the south, but the foliage is damaged by cold winters in the north - so looks best in the north with some spring clean up, mowing seems to work.
Zones 5-10.
Thinly cover seeds and keep moist and use 70F, many seeds will germinate within five weeks. Pluck out seedlings and plant, and move any remaining ungerminated seeds to 40F, were they will germinate over the next few months.
50 seeds.
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