Trichostema lanatum
| Habit | herbaceous
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| Height: | ⇕ | 2 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2. to 5 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 2 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2. |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
| USDA Zones: | 6 to 10 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | blue, purple |
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Trichostema lanatum (romero or Woolly Blue Curls) is a small evergreen shrub or sub-shrub native to arid coastal regions of California. It is many-branched and grows to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, with narrow, pointed green leaves. The smooth-petaled blue flowers are born in dense clusters, with the stem and calyces covered in woolly hairs of blue, pink, or white.
Read about Trichostema lanatum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Trichostema lanatum, Benth. A perennial shrubby plant with rosemary-like lvs. and cymes of fls. in a naked terminal thyrse: lvs. narrow-linear, 1-nerved, sessile, margins revolute: calyx and corolla covered with dense violet or purple wool; corolla 1/2 in. long. S. Calif.—A very handsome shrub, known as "ramero." CH
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Cultivation
T. lanatum does not tolerate summer water at all and dislikes 'wet feet' at any time of year. The soil must be fairly loose and well-drained. Even a single inadvertent summer watering can cause the plant to die if enough water gets into the root system. Even in its growing season, supplemental watering must be judiciously used if there is not enough rainfall. Placing the plant on a slightly raised knoll or berm helps prevent premature death from water, certainly this is not a plant to put in a swale or a depression; raising it up may be the only way to get it to survive in a less than ideal soil.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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