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Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 40-60 cm
Plant Spread: 30 cm
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Blue
Lavender
Pink
White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Medicinal Herb
Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Dragon's Head
  • Moldavian Balm
Also sold as:
  • Dracocephalum moldavicum

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Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2021-06-19
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Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2023-08-02
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2022-07-02
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-10-01

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
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Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-06-28

Date: 2020-04-28
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2021-03-17
Location: Calgary, Canada
Date: 2018-01-27 
Baby balm
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-07-25
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-08-05

Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissio
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-29
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2013-07-25
Plant Events from our members
lovesblooms On April 14, 2020 Seeds sown
indoors
lovesblooms On February 24, 2018 Seeds sown
winter sown
lovesblooms On March 8, 2016 Seeds germinated
lovesblooms On March 5, 2016 Seeds sown
indoors
KelliW On February 29, 2020 Seeds germinated
sprouts in jug
KelliW On February 2, 2020 Seeds sown
outdoors in a jug, zone 6b
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