Description: annual to short-lived
perennial, 12-24 inches tall; produces clusters of flowers with toothed petals,
in white, pink, red, purple, or violet, often bi-colored.Sweet-scented. Blooms
in zone 5 from mid-May to mid-July.
- Range/habitat: Pyrenees, Carpathian Mtns, Balkan Peninsula
(Spain, France, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia,
Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia); intro. into Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great
Britain, Holland, Portugal, and Sweden. Naturalized in the U.S.
- Culture/uses: full sun, dry to moist soils, prefers rich,
moist and well-draining soil; does not tolerate combination of heat
and humidity; good for fragrant gardens, cut- flowers, attracts butterflies.
Zones 4-10.
- Germination information: State standard=70 Seeds/lb.=437,000
- Planting rate: l lb./ 7,300 sq. ft., 6 lbs./acre (60)
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