Longflower alumroot

Longflower Alumroot (Heuchera longiflora) is a species of Heuchera with silvery-green foliage and incredibly showy flowers that are great for bouquets and your butterflies! A variety of Coral Bells, it’s well-known for their fantastic foliage!

This variety has large toothed leaves with silvery-green patches on the leaves for a dramatic two-tone effect! The toothy ripped leaf margins add texture to the neat mounds of leaves! From each several tall, dainty pale-yellow and pinkish blossoms emerge for the summer! Butterflies and bees adore these diminutive blooms, and so will the occasional hummingbird!

Longflower Alumroot is fantastic edging and for mass planting where you need a low-maintenance perennial that adapts to about any condition! In fact, that is what this native plant does best! You’ll find this variety growing wild in parts of the southeastern US, and it brings its disease and pest-free attitude to your home landscape!

Planting and Application:

The flowers are long-stemmed, dainty wonders and add a graceful air to shady perennial and cottage borders as well as cutting gardens where they’ll delight your pollinators! Let wind through your mixed-shrub borders as groundcover, or atop a steep slope where it may be dangerous to mow and provide erosion control!

Alumroot are fantastic for en masse plantings, there’s nothing that catches the eye better, or covers more thoroughly than these spreading, neat mounds of brilliant foliage. Create long rows for continuous color in front of windbreaks and hedges, use them as facer plants to hide larger shrubs bare legs, or dress up your front foundation plantings with bold greenery! The tidy mounds are the perfect edging, easing the transition between lawn and garden!

• Shade-Loving Perennial
• Silver-Green Mottled Leaves
• Gorgeous Texture
• Dainty Pink & Yellow Blooms
• Pollinators& Floral Design

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Alumroot is a hardy native that thrives in shady, moist sites that are always well-drained, never soggy. Clean mounds in early spring to remove any dead leaves before you see new growth. Mulch the site very well for insulation and to maintain moisture levels.

• Partial Shade/Sun & Full Shade
• Adaptable Native
• Well-Drained Moist Soil
• Clean Mounds in Early Spring

The darling Longflower Alumroot is a fantastic garden addition with native pest and disease resistance you can count on! Order this and many other fantastic shade perennials at NatureHills.com today!