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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 12-20 inch
Plant Spread: 10-12 inch
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting

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Common names
  • German Catchfly
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Viscaria vulgaris
  • Synonym: Lychnis viscaria
  • Synonym: Silene viscaria

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Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Upright sprays of flowers - impossible to photograph on a windy d
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-11
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-06-04
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-09
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-09
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-11
Location: Bilder ur Nordens Flora Stockholm 1917-1926
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856–1928)
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-06-04
Location: Aurora, On
Date: 2010-05-23
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