| Scientific Name: | Heuchera villosa (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | coral bells, hairy alum root |
| Family Name: | Saxifragaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °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: | Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Summer interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Tomentose, Oblong, Orbicular, Ovate, Ciliate, Dentate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Plants 45-60cm tall, laves basal, most orbicular-oblong, most 4-8(-12)cm wide, base cordate-truncate, (5-)7-9(-11) deep triangular-ovate lobes (may appear polygonal), margin sharply dentate, both sides pubescent (villosa), velvety texture; inflorescence 70-90cm tall, panicle-like with cymose branching (thyrse), flowers ~4mm wide, calyx bell-shaped. | |