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More Varieties of Pincushion Flower Butterfly Blue pincushion flower Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue' blooms all summer with lavender-blue flowers on 16-inch-tall stems. Zones 3-8 ...
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Scabiosa “Butterfly Blue” is the most well-known and widely planted cultivar. It earned the prestigious Perennial Plant of the Year Award in 2000, assuring its overall vigor, heavy blooming ...
Scabiosa Butterfly Blue (Pincushion Flower) has lavender blue flowers. It grows 8 to 12 inches high and flowers from early spring through the summer.
The pretty blue flowers of wild scabious have been in flower for a couple of weeks and still have more time to go. There are three kinds of wild scabious, all with faded blue pincushion flowers.
Scabiosa ochroleuca forms a clump of mid-green foliage up to a foot tall and wide. The ovate to lance-shaped basal leaves are up to 4 inches long and form the base for the nearly yearlong ...
The flowers, 2 inches across, really do look like a pincushion that has been stuck with pins (the stamen) and surrounded by petals. 'Butterfly Blue' is a reference to not only the flower color ...
Butterflies love pincushion flowers, making this a good selection for pollinator gardens. For foothill gardeners, scabiosa is deer-resistant and can tolerate temperatures down to the low 20s.