Scientific Name: Heuchera micrantha (incl. hybrid cvs.)
Common Name: fancy-leafed coral bells, small-flowered alumroot, crevice alumroot
Family Name: Saxifragaceae
Origin: B.C. west of Cascades, Garden origin, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Dentate, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Thyrse, White, May
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Jun
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, orbicular, most 6-12cm wide with 5-7(-9) rounded lobes, margin dentate and wavy, base cordate, usually pubescent, green to reddish-green or purple-green in color and may have very long, gland-dotted petioles; florets pink, white, or greenish on an erect thyrse (panicle-like but with cymose branching), 30-90cm tall.