Thursday 24 July 2014
Mertensia virginica is a species of flowering plant in the family
Boraginaceae, native to moist woodland in eastern North America. It is a spring
ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers opening from pink buds. The leaves
are rounded and gray-green, borne on stems up to 60 cm tall. They are petiolate at the bottom of the
flower stem and sessile at the top. In
cultivation, M. virginica has
gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Source
