Veronicastrum
Culver's Root
These elegant perennials impart a lofty vertical element to the late summer garden. Adorned with distinctive narrow spires of densely-arranged tiny flowers, Veronicastrum are native to meadows and woodlands, and are simple to grow in adequately-moist soil.
Hailed as one of the best Veronicastrum to grow according to British plantswoman Marina Christopher, this courtly perennial earns its keep when chic extra-long, slender white tapers flash sparkling snowy accents atop the proud vertical stand. Attractive whorls of horizontally-held, toothed lance-like leaves first unfurl in striking pale silver-green hues, then eventually turn more green as the weather warms. A commanding columnar presence for sunny borders and sufficiently moist natural-style plantings, ‘Spring Dew’ bewitches the butterflies, sometimes requires staking and partners well with Panicum ‘Summer Sunrise’ and Phlox amplifolia ‘Winnetou’.
Blooms mid-June–July
Size: 4' 0" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Veronicastrum sibiricum
- Veronicastrum sibiricum ‘Red Arrows’
- Veronicastrum virginicum
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Adoration’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Album’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Apollo’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Challenger’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Cupid’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Erica’
- Veronicastrum virginicum f. roseum ‘Pink Glow’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Fascination’
- Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Lavendelturm’
