Cup Plants Blue Flowers

Cup plant is a magnet for red aphids which can be found in masses on the undersides of leaves and subsequently become lodging for parasitic wasps.

Cup plants blue flowers. Plants may surprise you and overwinter in the middle south usda 7 and warmer. A prairie moon 05202019 thanks for writing meaghan. Flowers are blue to violet. This is a native american plant that was very popular for making blue dye.

The central stem is thick hairless and four sided. Cup plant is a robust grower and prolific self seeder. Provide a well drain nierembergia hippomanica blue mountainblue cup flower. The perfoliate leaves and stout square stem make cup plant easy to identify.

Luckily big blooms like hydrangea offer light sky blue petals and irises can blossom in classic royal blue. This annual produces a multitude of up turned petunia like or star shaped pale azure blue flowers during the warm months of the year. The color blue is rare in nature and thus blue flowering plants are very popular. It is an erect herbaceous perennial with triangular toothed leaves and daisy like yellow composite flower heads in summer.

Augusta blue skies is a compact hybrid with lavender blue flowers and improved heat tolerance. Reaching heights of up to 8 feet 24 m this bright yellow perennial flower is a welcome addition to gardens for its attractiveness to bees and other beneficial insects. The large opposite leaves are up to 8 long and 5 across which join together around the central stem to form a cup that can hold water hence the. A close look at the leaves and flowers of baptisia australis should tell you that it is in the pea family.

The amount of blue ness in a blue flowered plant varies from genus to genus from a saturated royal blue to sky blue to a more purple tinted lavender blue. Its common name is blue false indigobaptisia can be slow to get established but once it is it sends down a deep taproot and does not like to be budged. Trimming back plant after bloom to induce new growth seems to lengthen its life. It can create colonies from short fibrous rhizomes and has become invasive in new england where its been introduced.

This perennial plant is about 4 10 tall and remains unbranched except for the panicle of flowering stems near the apex. No matter which blue you want we probably have it. Cup plant or silphium perfoliatum is native flowering plant found in most parts of the eastern united states. Much branched mounding plant with very small stiff leaves.

Blue can be a difficult color to find naturally occurring in flowers. Transplanting any plant always involves some shock to the roots so we recommend digging only when the plant is dormant either in spring before it starts growing or in fall after the growing season has ended.