Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Mertensia Roth. [488]

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accepted: Accepted

Family: Boraginaceae

family_ja: ムラサキ

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distribution_en: N. temp. to Mexico, Afghanistan

description_en: Genus of about 50 species of clump-forming, mound-forming, or prostrate perennials from wet meadows, woodland, and coasts in Europe, Asia, North America, and Greenland. The alternate, lance-shaped to rounded leaves, some-times with heart-shaped bases, are light to dark green or greyish or bluish green. Pendent, tubular or bell-shaped, 5-lobed blue flowers, with flared, funnel-shaped mouths, are borne in terminal or axillary cymes. Grow the smaller species in a gravel bed, rock garden, or alpine house, the larger ones in a peat bed, herbaceous border, or woodland garden.

hardiness_en: Fully hardy.

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propagation_en: Sow seed in containers in a cold frame in autumn; keep young plants shaded and do not allow the soil to dry out. Divide clumps carefully as new growth commences in spring. Take root cuttings of M. pulmonarioides when dormant, in autumn or early winter.

pests_en: Slugs and snails may cause damage.

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2022-03-09 15:20

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