Skullcap

From LoveToKnow Garden

Skullcap (Scutellaria) - Hardy perennials, of which several are in cultivation, but few are good garden plants. These few are handsome flowers for the border, and their dwarf neat growth is also suited to the rock garden in an open sunny situation in any soil. S. baicalensis, from Siberia, is the finest of all the species. It is an excellent alpine perennial, forming a hardy woody root-stock, is 9 inches high, and produces an abundance of rich, velvety, dark blue flowers, finer in color than those of S. japonica, though this is a handsome plant. The alpine Skullcap (S. alpina) is a spreading plant with all the vigour of the coarsest weeds of its natural order, but neat in habit and ornamental in flower. Pyrenees. Division or seed.