Ajuga reptans 'Princess Elsa'
Ajuga reptans 'Princess Elsa' is an evergreen bugleweed with shiny, silver foliage and blue-purple flowers.
Description:
Ajuga 'Princess Elsa' brings class and style to the garden with its small clumping habit and unique, silver foliage. The leaves are small and textured with a silvered sheen that provides a perfect foil for the blue-purple flowers that bloom from spring to early summer. Cold hardy, heat tolerant, fast growing, evergreen and low maintenance. Use this bugleweed as a ground cover for borders, along pathways, and in containers. Pollinator attractor. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Common Name: Bugleweed
Family: Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)
Zone Hardiness: 4-9
Light: Part Shade, Full Sun, Part Sun
Height: 4-8"
Width: 8-12"
Primary Bloom Colour: Blue
Secondary Bloom Colour: Purple
Class: Evergreen
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Late Spring
Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits: Bees, Hummingbirds
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Grassy fields and woods, often in damp soils.
Award: AGM
Geogrpahical Origin: Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia
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