Asarum megacalyx Green Sheen Hallucinogenic Plants Sabatia caroliniana

Sabatia caroliniana

The stiff narrow blue-green leaves make a perfectly symmetrical deer-resistant clump to 3' tall x 4' wide

From Bob Keller

The clumps are topped with 13" scapes of light lavender flowers in early summer

but also thrives under irrigated garden conditions

Asarum megacalyx Green Sheen Hallucinogenic Plants Sabatia carolinianaAsarum megacalyx makes a superb evergreen groundcover patch that reaches 2' wide in 5 years. The glossy dark green foliage of Asarum 'Green Sheen' hides the huge thumb sized dark purple flowers that appear in late February to early March in NC. When we grew this in deep shade, we only saw a few scattered flowers, but when planted in a site that received a couple of hours of afternoon sun, it produced hundreds of flowers amazing. This is a form of the