Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jupiter on November 12, 2012, 09:05:27 AM

Title: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Jupiter on November 12, 2012, 09:05:27 AM

Does anyone recognise this? Please excuse the picture quality; photographed with my wife's mobile phone. The flowers are only about 10mm long, woody creeping rhizomes with multiple vertical stems, clump forming, small pubescent leaves.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: brianw on November 12, 2012, 10:29:06 AM

Looks like a Jovellana, but I don't know enough about the range to be absolute. Usually a delightful small shrub when I have seen it.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Jupiter on November 12, 2012, 10:34:17 AM

Thank you so much Brian. I was very taken with the thing.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Maggi Young on November 12, 2012, 10:43:00 AM

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3639.msg96400#msg96400 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3639.msg96400#msg96400)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5556.msg157690#msg157690 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5556.msg157690#msg157690)   - couple of posts from Gerd K. about his J. punctata.
Marvelous plant - from Chile, I think.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Botanica on November 13, 2012, 06:31:41 AM

Flowers :o ..Yes !!! Thanks the southern Hemisphere  ;D ;D ;D

Very nice plant Jupiter  ;)

I never seen that before  :P

If you have some seed of this plant this year , i'am interested in ?

Difficult to germinate ?

(http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/Jovellana_punctata_0007.jpg)

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 13, 2012, 08:07:53 AM

By Jove, a dainty little flower. 8)

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: bainbridges on November 13, 2012, 12:45:26 PM

Try Jovellana violacea. A small shrub making about 600cm Gets cut back in hard Scottish winters but survives and breaks from the base.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: Roma on November 13, 2012, 05:29:57 PM

Jovellana sinclairii is another which is fairly hardy in Scotland.  It grew outside for a few years at the Cruickshank Garden in Aberdeen.

Title: Re: Tiny foxglove like flowers on a clump forming perennial
Post by: John Kitt on November 14, 2012, 12:06:41 AM

Easy to read, IMPOSSIBLE to pronounce    (ho-vel-YAY-uh)

John