Botanical Name: Ageratum houstonianum
Common Name: Flossflower, Ageratum
Type of Plant: dicot: sp. annual
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape compact, upright plant with broad, flattened foliage; terminal clusters of blue-purple fuzzy flowers
Height 6" - 12"
Spread to 12"
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors half shade to full sun
Soil takes any soil with good drainage
Hardiness tender to frost
 
Morphology:
Leaves ovate to lanceolate, medium green, margins tinged purple, 2"-3" long, margins crenate to dentate, pubescent above and beneath
Flowers blue-lilac or white in cymes, heads to ½" across with linear bracts
Fruit achene
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
good source of blue color in borders, containers, raised beds; mixes well with other annuals, good in mass plantings
 
Landscape Care:
Watering needs regular summer watering
Fertilizing balanced, slow-release at planting
Pruning none
Pests/Diseases whitefly
 
Origin: Central America
Family: Compositae

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