Bergenia cordifolia
Heart-leaved Bergenia, Heartt-leaf Bergenia, Elephant's ears, Elephant's-ears, Elephant-Ears, Elephant-ears [Bergenia crassifolia], Heart-leaved Elephant's-ears, Heartleaf Bergenia, Korean elephant-ear, Siberian Tea, Siberian-tea, Bergenia
Description
A perennial ornamental herbaceous plant with compact growth; it reaches an average height of 0.35 m, making it ideal for adding a unique colour accent to planters and outdoor tubs as well as to flower beds and rock gardens as a first-rate plant, even in compositions with other ornamentals. Appreciated both for its spike-like inflorescences, present from late spring until the end of summer, and for its leathery foliage, which takes on shades tending towards red when the first cold weather arrives. Easy to grow, it withstands harsh winters well.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Genus
- Bergenia
- Species
- Bergenia cordifolia
