Scientific Name: Heuchera cvs.
Common Name: coral bells, alumroot
Family Name: Saxifragaceae
Origin: Garden origin
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: Perennial border, Small garden/space, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Ciliate, Dentate, Palmately lobed, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Thyrse, White, Pink, May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, most orbicular 7-15(-20)cm long x 5-12cm wide, base cordate, margins lobed to incised and wavy (ruffled appearance), purple (ranging from deep purple to lavender), red (including coppery red and ruby red tones), green (from light to dark green), bronze (metallic or shimmering bronze hues), orange (from subtle peach to deep tangerine), and silver/gray (some hybrids have silvery or frosty-looking foliage); flowers tiny, white to pink, red, coral or peachy, and held above the foliage on panicles with cymose branching (thyrse).