King's Spear (Asphodeline lutea)

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 6b -20.6 °C (-5 °F) to -17.8 °C (0 °F)
Plant Spread:	18 to 24 inches (45-60cm)
Flowers:	Showy Fragrant
Flower Color:	Yellow
Flower Time:	Late spring or early summer Summer
Inflorescence Height:	3 to 4 feet (.9-1.2m)
Foliage Mound Height:	12 to 18 inches (30-45cm)
Underground structures:	Rhizome
Uses:	Dried Flower
Pollinators:	Various insects

Common names

King's Spear
Yellow Asphodel
Jacob's Rod

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Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11

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Date: c. 1903
illustration from 'Prof. Dr. Thome's Flora von Deutschland, Oster

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Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2008-06-06

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Location: At Annie's Annuals Nursery
Date: 2012-04-24

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Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: August
Asphodeline lutea seedpods growing with a red Monarda

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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-11

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Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2017-07-17

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Location: Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Location: Menton, France
Date: 2016-04-09

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Location: Athens (Greece)
Date: 2022-05-27

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Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Buds getting ready to open

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-05-21

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Location: Herterton House, Northumberland UK
Date: 2010-05-15

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Photo Courtesy of Secret Garden Growers.

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Location: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
photo credit: Cillas

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-07-30

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Location: Botanical Garden University Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-10-23

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Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2014-03-13
In early spring showing new growth

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-05-31
ant's seem like this bulb

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-05-13
Didn't know if it would survive winter here...

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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-09

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-04-12

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Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2016-06-09

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Photo courtesy of Annie's Annuals and Perennials

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Comments:

Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Mar 13, 2014 6:21 PM concerning plant:

I don't detect any fragrance from this flower, but then I can't smell sarcococca either, so could be my nose. The flower stalks stand well above the grassy foliage with no staking needed. They don't last long, perhaps 2-3 weeks, after which I cut the flower stalks down to the ground and just let the foliage carry on. The foliage is a grassy soft gray-green and is evergreen, although it gets a bit ratty looking in the winter. I cut it back to about 3" in the fall. Spreads easily but not aggressively.

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