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Nartheciaceae
Bog-asphodel
Narthecium ossifragum
Also known as Narthecium palustre, Abama ossifraga, Phalangium ossifragum, Moor asphodel
Native Plants · Bog Plant · Acidic Soil · Wetland · Heathland · Native Wildflower · Specialist · Yellow Flowers · Peat · Perennial · Wildlife Garden
Bog-asphodel is a specialist plant native to acidic, waterlogged bogs and heathlands, and it demands very specific growing conditions — permanently moist, nutrient-poor, acidic peaty soil with no lime. It produces beautiful golden-yellow flower spikes in summer but is not suited to conventional garden beds or containers without careful recreation of bog conditions. Best grown in a purpose-built bog garden or alongside other acid-loving bog plants such as sphagnum moss and sundews.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Maintain consistently saturated, acidic, peaty conditions at all times · Keep substrate permanently moist; do not allow to dry out
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- peat
- Soil pH
- 4–4.5
- Temperature
- -35°F to 75°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 3b-7b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 6 in – 18 in
- Spread
- 12 in
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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