| Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
| Life cycle: | Perennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Partial Shade |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic |
| Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
| Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 7a -17.8 °C (0 °F) to -15 °C (5 °F) |
| Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 11 |
| Leaves: | Evergreen Other: Upright and usually arching. |
| Flowers: | Showy |
| Flower Color: | Other: Violet-blue or sometimes white |
| Flower Time: | Summer Fall |
| Underground structures: | Rhizome |
| Resistances: | Deer Resistant |
| Propagation: Other methods: | Division |
| Containers: | Suitable in 3 gallon or larger Needs excellent drainage in pots |
| Miscellaneous: | Goes Dormant |
| MrsBinWY | On May 1, 2023 | Bloomed Two of the three plants I kept for myself opened their first blossoms in May 2023. Each plant sent up one flowering stem. The blossoms opened over a long season, and the seeds began maturing in August 2023. Only two or three seed pods still maturing as of September 19, 2023. |
| MrsBinWY | On May 22, 2020 | Potted up 20 - big, fleshy roots; had to swish them around in a pot of water for a very long time to get them apart |
| MrsBinWY | On December 22, 2019 | Seeds germinated 1 of the "floated" seeds that sank showing a radical (added it to the milk jug with the other seeds; moved the milk jug to the bathroom floor to the side of the heater vent); another sinker showing a radical on 12-23-19 (will leave this one a while to see if it can progress under water; dropped the water level such that the seeds are barely covered); the other 2 sinkers were showing their radicals on 12-26-19. (All 4 sinkers germinated in water.) Also on 12-26-19, I can see one of the seeds sown in the milk jug (not the "sinker" that germinated first) has a nice, thick radical and has pushed the seed coat above the potting mix. On 12-29-19, moved the 3 germinated sinkers to the milk jug of potting mix. The oldest one didn't seem to be progressing in water. It might have if I'd left it alone, but I couldn't stand it. As of 1/8/20, all 20 seeds had emerged. The 3 that I left in the water until 12-29-19 were the last to emerge. |
| MrsBinWY | On December 14, 2019 | Seeds sown 16 seeds from maxx2's 2019G in milk jug @ room temp. Floated the rest (probably ~4 viable - 4 floaters & 4 sinkers) as a test, since the seeds remind me of Amaryllis seeds). |
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