Botanical Name: Nepeta x faassenii
Common Name: Catmint
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape spreading, mounding, gray-green aromatic plant with upright stems and loose spikes of blue flowers in summer; cats are attracted to the foliage and roll in it
Height to 2'
Spread 2'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoor full sun
Soil tolerates most any soil, including alkaline
Hardiness hardy (all zones)
 
Morphology:
Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 1-1/4" long; gray green, coarsely dentate on margins, somewhat aromatic
Flowers racemes or cymes of violet-blue flowers in summer
Fruit small capsule
 
Propagation:
stem cuttings (seeds are sterile)
 
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
 
Origin: Hybrid
Family: Lamiaceae

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