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Sun exposure: Full shade to light shade (5 or less hours of sunlight a day)
Soil: performs best in average to slightly moist soils
Traits
Special Care Instructions
None. Lungwort is easy to grow, wanting average to moist soils and shade.
Flowering Time
Early Spring
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
Lungworts have tubular flowers in very early spring in shades of pink, blue, and white that are surprisingly resistant to spring frosts. They are shade loving plants with dark green, fuzzy, leathery leaves covered, to varying degrees, in silvery-white spots. They are easy to grow in all but dry clay soils, and blend beautifully with other shade plants such as Solomon’s Seals and Hostas.
Traditionally, like the name suggests, Lungwort has been used to treat various lung disorders, such as asthma, coughs, tuberculosis, bronchitis, chronic cough, sore throat, and whooping-cough. Used externally, lungwort helps treat burns, eczema, hemorrhoids, psoriasis, and wounds.
Varieties
Soil: performs best in average to slightly moist soils
Traits
Special Care Instructions
None. Lungwort is easy to grow, wanting average to moist soils and shade.
Flowering Time
Early Spring
Characteristics, Uses, and Fun Facts
Lungworts have tubular flowers in very early spring in shades of pink, blue, and white that are surprisingly resistant to spring frosts. They are shade loving plants with dark green, fuzzy, leathery leaves covered, to varying degrees, in silvery-white spots. They are easy to grow in all but dry clay soils, and blend beautifully with other shade plants such as Solomon’s Seals and Hostas.
Traditionally, like the name suggests, Lungwort has been used to treat various lung disorders, such as asthma, coughs, tuberculosis, bronchitis, chronic cough, sore throat, and whooping-cough. Used externally, lungwort helps treat burns, eczema, hemorrhoids, psoriasis, and wounds.
Varieties
Lungwort
Pulmonaria
Pulmonaria
Growing Conditions
Attracts Hummingbirds
Deer Resistant
Good Cut Flower & Foliage
Pink Haze 8" tall
| • | Heavily spotted green leaves are covered in large, bright pink, open flowers in early spring. |
| • | Combine with Ferns and Coral Bells for a shade garden full of color and contrast. |
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Raspberry Splash 12" tall
| • | Bright raspberry-pink flowers shout spring is here! |
| • | This rubra hybrid is one of the first Pulmonarias to flower, often greeting us with buds and flowers in late March. |
| • | Long, narrow dark green foliage is heavily spotted with silver. |
| • | Combines wonderfully with other shade perennials. |
Trevi Fountain 12" tall
| • | Produces abundant clusters of cobalt-blue flowers in early spring and will repeat with dead-heading. |
| • | Its dark green leaves are heavily spotted and hold up very well throughout the summer. |
| • | This has been our favorite variety since 2000. |
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Lungwort with a Foam Flower in the foreground