Anthyllis Montana

Description

Anthyllis Montana – This Alpine and mountain clump forming, woody-based perennial from Southern Europe grows to 12” tall and spreads to about 30” wide. It produces pinnate leaves to 2 ½” long consisting of 8-15 or more narrowly elliptic to egg shape-oblong silky haired gray-green leaflets. In late spring and early summer it bears red, pink, or purple white-tipped flowers to ½” long in dense spherical clover-like heads ¾-1 ¼” wide held above the foliage. Zones 6-9 Anthyllis There are around 25 species of annuals, perennials, and shrubs found on rocky cliffs or in open grasslands in the Mediterranean, in this genus. They produce pinnate or 3-palmate leaves with leaflets which are often small and closely crowded. From spring to summer it bears racemes of pea like flowers of yellow, cream, red or pink in dense heads occasionally in clusters or singly from the leaf axils. There easily grown, thriving in areas with long hot summers and tolerates poor dry soils that are well drained in full sun. Trim plants after flowering. Great for a rock garden or in the front of a mixed border. Prone to fungal leaf spots.