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Coral bells
Heuchera sanguinea
Also known as: Alumroot
Family: Saxifragaceae
30 to 50 cm tall in flower
Borders, shady beds and cool rockeries; often grown for its evergreen foliage
Flowering: May – July
Part shade
Shade
Hardy to about -20°C
❓ How do you recognise this plant?
The countless Heuchera cultivars with purple, caramel or silvery foliage almost all derive from crosses with this species, originally red-flowered.
🍃 Leaves
In a basal rosette, rounded, lobed, evergreen, often purple, silvery or variegated depending on the cultivars
🌸 Flowers
Small red to pink bells, in light racemes on fine upright stems well above the foliage
🍎 Fruits
Small dry capsule with seeds
🪵 Bark
Not applicable — evergreen herbaceous plant
🗺️ Distribution
Native to Mexico and the south-western United States, very widely grown and hybridised in horticulture
🐝 Value for pollinators
Nectar-rich flowers appreciated by bees; visited by hummingbirds in its native range
✂️ Horticultural uses
Border and bedding plant prized above all for its coloured foliage, evergreen all year round
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