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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Plantaholic Sheila on September 17, 2018, 05:14:07 PM

Title: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: Plantaholic Sheila on September 17, 2018, 05:14:07 PM




Please can someone id this dainty pale blue flower.
Seen in a garden in Glen Prossen...on 9th August.
2 pics have been pruned to see detail more clearly.
Thank you.
Title: Re: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: Maggi Young on September 17, 2018, 05:42:53 PM
Nice colour form of Horminum I think.
Title: Re: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: Plantaholic Sheila on September 17, 2018, 05:58:07 PM
That looks spot on...Horminum pyrenaicum.......comprising a single species. Common names include Dragonmouth and Pyrenean Dead-nettle.
This species is native to the Pyrenees and Alps in western Europe.
Many thanks Maggie.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horminum_pyrenaicum_alboviolaceum_(19506993210).jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horminum_pyrenaicum_alboviolaceum_(19506993210).jpg)

Elizabeth Mcgregor is selling a beautiful form....

https://www.elizabethmacgregornursery.co.uk/shop/index.php?page=24 (https://www.elizabethmacgregornursery.co.uk/shop/index.php?page=24)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horminum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horminum)
Title: Re: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: Maggi Young on September 17, 2018, 06:14:33 PM
Oh yes, that form from Elizabeth  McGregor looks like the one you pictured. I  love it!
Title: Re: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: shelagh on September 18, 2018, 11:47:36 AM
Horminum pyrenaicum album.


We obtained ours from Tallinn Botanic Garden and I have sent seed to the Seed Exchange for several years.
Title: Re: Dainty pale blue flowers
Post by: Plantaholic Sheila on September 18, 2018, 01:35:50 PM
Horminum pyrenaicum album.


We obtained ours from Tallinn Botanic Garden and I have sent seed to the Seed Exchange for several years.

Thank you Shelagh for confirming it is Horminum pyrenaicum
I actually feel that with the white tube and violet /blue mouth Horminum pyrenaicum f. alboviolaceum is actually spot on with what I saw.
See links in my post above.
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