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Mertensia virginica
Virginia Bluebell
Plant Type:
SHADE PERENNIALSMertensia virginica - Virginia Bluebell is an early blooming herbaceous perennial with showy terminal clusters of blue trumpet-shaped flowers. An easy plant in open shade, dappled to part sun in fertile, draining soil it will thrive and slowly spread. Virginia Bluebell is perfect in a woodland scheme where it will in ephemeral fashion flower in early spring and soon disappear. Plant with later-to-emerge plants that will fill the gaps. Native from Maine, west to Minnesota, south to Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina.
Characteristics and Attributes for Mertensia virginica
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Early Spring
Light
- Morning Sun / Afternoon Shade
- Shade
- Dappled Shade
Attributes
- Border
- Massing
- Natural Garden
- Woodland
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Medium
Soil
- Fertile
- Woodland
- Draining
Origins
- Eastern U.S.
Propagated By
- Division