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Dodecatheon meadia

Shooting Star, American Cowslip
Size
ex 1L pots
Availability: Sold Out
£5.99
Quick Overview
  • Small clump-forming herbaceous perennial
  • Beautiful miniature purple flowers
  • Shaded aspect with moist soil
  • Summer dormant
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Dodecatheon meadia, Shooting Star or American Cowslip, is a small clump-forming member of the Primulaceae with startlingly beautiful and very diminutive purple flowers in Spring. At home in a moist soil with a shaded or partially shaded aspect, Dodecatheon meadia is a charming and very undemanding herbaceous perennial which after a long dormancy through summer and winter miraculously appears in mid-March and quickly sends up its umbels of delightful elegant flowers with petals that have a streamlined swept-back profile giving rise to their common name of Shooting Star.


Additional Information

Order Ericales
Family Primulaceae
Synonyms Dodecatheon angustifolium, Dodecatheon californicum, Dodecatheon cordatum, Dodecatheon crenatum, Dodecatheon cuneatum, Dodecatheon ellipticum, Dodecatheon flexuosum, Dodecatheon hugeri, Dodecatheon integrifolium, Dodecatheon integrifolium var. album, Dodecatheon lemoinei, Dodecatheon longifolium, Dodecatheon lutescens, Dodecatheon meadia f. album, Dodecatheon meadia subsp. hugeri, Dodecatheon meadia var. integrifolium, Dodecatheon meadia var. meadia, Dodecatheon meadia f. meadia, Dodecatheon meadia var. obesum, Dodecatheon meadia f. pallidum, Dodecatheon meadia var. pauciflorum, Dodecatheon meadia f. sedens, Dodecatheon meadia var. stanfieldii, Dodecatheon obovatum, Dodecatheon obtusum, Dodecatheon ovatum, Dodecatheon parviflorum, Dodecatheon pauciflorum, Dodecatheon pauciflorum subsp. eupauciflorum, Dodecatheon pauciflorum var. exquisitum, Dodecatheon pulchellum subsp. pauciflorum, Dodecatheon reflexum, Dodecatheon serratum, Dodecatheon splendidum, Dodecatheon stanfieldii, Dodecatheon triflorum, Dodecatheon undatum, Dodecatheon uniflorum, Meadia crenata, Meadia dodecatheon, Meadia pauciflora, Primula meadia, Primula pauciflora
Geographical Origin USA, Canada
Cultivation Shaded or partially-shaded location. Well-drained but moist soil
Eventual Height 35cm
Eventual Spread 30cm
Hardiness Hardy herbaceous perennial
Dodecatheon meadia
Shooting Star, American Cowslip
Size
ex 1L pots
Availability: Sold Out
£5.99
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