Campanulaceae
Downingia laeta
Downingia laeta
Also known as Bolelia laeta, Downingia brachyantha, Bolelia brachyantha
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Downingia · Campanulaceae · Wetland Plant · Rain Garden · Blue Flowers · Native Wildflower · Pacific Northwest · Pond Margin · Part Shade · Perennial
Downingia laeta is a charming native annual-like wildflower that thrives in moist to seasonally wet soils, making it ideal for rain gardens or pond margins. Plant it in partial shade with consistent moisture to encourage its vivid blue-violet blooms. It is well suited to naturalistic plantings in the Pacific Northwest and intermountain West.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged; this plant tolerates and prefers higher moisture levels · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.4–7.9
- Temperature
- -40°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 3a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White
- Foliage
- Green · Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alberta, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Saskatchewan, Utah, Wyoming
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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