Seseli gummiferum Rubus though not tremendously showy

though not tremendously showy

The 26" tall x 2

This native North American pest moved from Mexico into the US probably around the 1930s

has good substance

Seseli gummiferum Rubus though not tremendously showyI fell in love with the Crimean native Seseli gummiferum when I visited the Denver Botanic Garden in 2013. Although moon carrot is a biennial short lived perennial, we just had to share. The lacy silver blue foliage of Seseli gummiferum resembles a compact Artemisia 'Powis Castle', topped in summer with 30" tall spikes that emerge like a white Queen Anne's Lace, but then morph to a mauvy pink. In the wild, Seseli gummiferum grows above 3,000'