Botanical Name: Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’
Common Name: Catmint
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape spreading, low, matt-forming gray-green aromatic plant with short upright stems and loose spikes of violet flowers in spring and summer
Height to 1'
Spread 3' to 4'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoor full sun
Soil tolerates most any soil, including alkaline
Hardiness hardy (all zones)
 
Morphology:
ovate, to 1" long; coarsely dentate on margins, deeply Leaves veined, gray-green above, paler beneath, somewhat aromatic
Flowers racemes or cymes of violet-blue flowers in spring through summer months; longer blooming season than the species
Fruit small capsule
 
Propagation:
stem cuttings, seed
 
Usage:
excellent facer or groundcover used for blue flowers and gray green foliage; use in perennial borders, with herbs or other aromatic plants
 
Landscape Care:
Watering takes average watering, not especially drought tolerant
Fertilizing balanced, slow-release in spring
Pruning shear off dead flowers after bloom, pinch for compactness
Pests/Diseases none
Special Conditions/Other denser and flatter than the species N. racemosa
 
Origin: Hybrid
Family: Lamiaceae

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