Sidalcea 'Elsie Heugh'
(Prairie Mallow 'Elsie Heugh')
Family - Malvaceae
Category - Perennial
Year of Introduction - 1936
Season of Interest - Summer
Hardiness - H7
Height - 90cm
Width - 45cm or more
Location - The Wedding Ring Border
Description: A clump-forming herbaceous Perennial with an upright habit. Mid-green leaves are rounded in shape at the base of the plant, while the finger-like stem leaves are palmately lobed and deeply cut. Satiny, pale pink flowers with fringed petals are bowl-shaped and held in spike-like Racemes. The flowers are produced from mid to late summer.
Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Flower:
Pale pink, bowl-shaped flowers with fringed petals are held in upright racemes. The flowers are produced in July and August.
Flower colour: Pink
Flower shape: Bowl-shaped flowers in racemes
Flowering time: July, August
Foliage:
Mid-green leaves are rounded at the base of the plant while the stem leaves are palmately lobed and deeply cut.
Foliage Senescence: Deciduous
Foliage Shape: Rounded to palmately lobed
Propagation:
Division.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun in moisture retentive soil that is well drained.