Poker Plant

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

South Africa

Location

Groundcover Collection

Source of plant

High Country Gardens

Description

This species is native to the grassy slopes of the Drakensberg Mountains where it grows to form huge colonies of plants, often in marshy sites. With robust rosettes of grassy blue foliage, it blooms with large melon-orange and yellow flower spikes in mid-summer. Seed for this strain was collected at about 9000' elevation from a huge field of plants growing in Tiffindel. Keep adequately watered. 30-36" tall and wide.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5