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, Semi-evergreen
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, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Heavily veined, Lustrous, Glandular hairs, Orbicular, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Thyrse, White, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, palmately lobed, most orbicular, 8-12cm wide, base cordate, purple, shiny, deeply veined; panicle on a long peduncle rising high above leaves, florets white, pubescent, about 3mm long x 2mm wide, Jun-Jul.