Not to be confused with a Jewish head cloth, the skullcap genus Scutellaria is a member of the mint family, native around the world, and recognized by its small, tubular, butterfly-attracting flowers. The name scutellaria comes from the Latin for "small dish", which refers to the shape of the flower.
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Historically, species in the genus Scutellaria have been used as herbs, medicines, and for 'recreation', but our scutellaria selections were chosen for ornamental reasons. There are several good scutellaria species in the genus, most of which require decent drainage in cultivation.
Scutellaria are mostly small plants that look best in a container, a rock garden or planted in a drift without any taller competition nearby. Most scutellaria species prefer full sun and once established are very drought tolerant. There are scutellaria species which flower at various times from spring to fall with little snapdragon-ish flowers. When you're ready to buy scutellaria for your perennial garden, we hope you'll check out our online list of scutellaria for sale below.
Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!
This delightful Mexican skullcap makes a wonderfully durable, attractive, and easy-to-grow gem for the rock garden. Our 14-year-old plant is 8" tall x 18" wide. In spring, this dwarf mound is smothered in tiny fruit-punch-colored, snapdragon-like flowers that continue sporadically through the summer...dynamite! Scutellaria suffrutescens 'Texas Rose' was originally collected in 1986 by Dave Creech, Ray Jordan, and the late Lynn Lowery near Horsetail Falls, west of Monterrey, Mexico, and named by us in 1997. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
I found Scutellaria integrifolia growing in the woods in Kershaw County, South Carolina and was impressed enough to gather seed. We now grow these 2' tall pubescent-stemmed native wildflowers in our own woodland garden, where they are topped with spikes of small blue flowers in April and early May. With a native range from New York to Texas, it has a wide range of tolerances for soil types, moisture, and grows equally as well in both blue and red states. We find Scutellaria integrifolia flowers better and grows more vigorously in part sun conditions. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
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