cape leadwort
Plumbago auriculata
RHS AGM 1993
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Arching
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn, winter
- Bloom color
- Pale blue
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Notes
Cape leadwort (Plumbago auriculata) is a shrub for borders, containers, and specimen planting. It is hardy to USDA zone 8, or down to 10°F (-12°C). This plant likes full or part sun, average moisture, and sandy, loamy, or chalky soil. It has an arching habit and pale blue flowers. The evergreen leaves stay green, and the plant tolerates drought and salt. Deer tend to browse other plants first.
Pairs well with Olive, Silver sage, and Karl Foerster feather reed grass.
Native range
North America, Central America, South America, Caribbean, and 40 more places. See all 44
North America, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, Aruba, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Christmas I., Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Marianas, Marquesas, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Panamá, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Sumatera, Togo, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..