'Alpine Skullcap' (sku-TE-lah-ree-ah: al-PEEN-ah)
Here is a selection of mixed colors including: Blue, violet, soft blue, white, rose and soft yellow. Plants grow 6 to 12 inches tall. Booming in mid summer and best grown in well drained almost gravel like soils in full sun or open dappled shade. Plants grow 12 inches wide and form slowly spreading clumps.
Zones (4)5-8 This species is native from Southern Europe to Russia. The genus name means 'small dish' -- from the cup like look of the sepals after the petals fall off (the cup holds the seeds).
Sow at 65F, if no germination in four weeks, move to the fridge for 3 weeks, then back to 65F.
30 seeds.
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