#alumroot

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heuchera

2024/08/10

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Tiny Coral Bells

Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Blooming Coral Bells or Heuchera - likely the 'Palace Purple' - on the Flower Field. This capture was over-exposured a stop for the flowers to be visible against the bright backdrop.

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hairy alumroot

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Alumroot GNGT South Bay 04/2024

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 20 October 2022

In my friend’s garden Heuchera villosa 'Palace Purple' (alum root) is still producing small pale pink flowers above the smart mounds of metallic bronze-purple leaves. This is a great ground-cover plant especially for the front of a border.

Jill Raggett

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Colletes aestivalis. 

 Rare?  or Not Rare?  This is a Heuchera (alumroot) specialist.  Heuchera is planted everywhere, so why is the species not seen and seen by some as a potential species of concern?  A few things pilgrim.  First most of the Heuchera out there are part of a hybrid Heuchera swarm (I like the ring of that phrase, but, sadly, it will not often come up in casual conversation).  OK, so C. aestivalis is not interested in these hybrids.  Also, wild Heuchera is hard to find and its little brown bee visitors also hard to see.  We now know of several discovered populations of this bee in areas where H. americana have been planted.  So, 2 lessons. 1.  Plant H. americana.  2.  Look for bees on H. americana and maybe our friend will be there.   Brooke Goggins took the picture and the specimen was found in Virginia, but I can't recall which group!