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Scientific Name: | Nepeta x faassenii cvs. |
Common Name: | catmint |
Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
Origin: | Garden origin |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Pendulous, Spreading |
Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Herb, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Ovate, Crenate |
Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves opposite, ovate, most blades 2-4cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, margins crenate, pubescent, very strong odour when crushed; florets two-lipped, ~1cm high x 0.5mm wide, blue-violet (some white cvs.). |