Scientific Name: Heuchera micrantha var. diversifolia 'Palace Purple'
Common Name: Palace Purple alumroot
Family Name: Saxifragaceae
Origin: Garden origin, Mexico
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Perennial border, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Heavily veined, Lustrous, Glandular hairs, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Thyrse, White, May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves purple, palmate, lobed, shiny, deep veined, maple leaf-like in appearance, present all year; inflorescence panicle of tiny, ball-like white flowers borne on a long peduncle rising high above leaves.