
Virginia Blue Bells or Viginia Cowslip
Mertensia virginica
- Produces lovely pink buds that open to sapphire blue bell flowers in March - May
- Excellent in woodland setting and waterside plantings
- Natural habitat: floodplains, slope forests
- Pollinated by long- tongued bees, but supports many other early pollinators
- Best in organic-rich, well drained soils with even moisture
- Pt.shade/ shade
- This species is ephemeral, which means that its foliage dies back in summer
- Interplant with other perennials and ferns
- Reseeds freely
- great massed
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Characteristics & Attributes
Attributes:
» Border or Bed» Cut Flower/Foliage
» Fast Growing
» Ground Cover
» Low Maintenance
» Mass Planting
» Native
» Self seeds in optimum conditions
» Spring Bloomer
» Water's Edge / Bog Plant