.png) Eryngium carlinae
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- flowering season: summer
- height: leaves to 4 or 5 inches tall, with taller flowers at 8 to 12 inches
- Light requirements: sun
- Soil requirements: average
- Water requirments: average, well-drained
- Growth habit: a slowly thickening clump
- How to propagate: dividing in late spring or early summer
- Leaf type: green leaves with large green, sharply tipped spines
- Ways to use it: a low-growing plant for the front of a flower bed or rock garden
This seaholly is a low, mounding plant with green leaves, thinly divided into sharp spines. In summer low stems of flowers colored in steely blue rise above the leves to no more than a foot tall. It is native to Mexico, south into Central America. Its low height would make is suitable for planting in a rock garden or towards the front of a garden bed. Hardy in USDA Zones 8 - 11. |
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