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Berlandiera lyrata
Chocolate Flower
Category
Perennials
Description
Grows 18-36 inches in height. Pale yellow flowers with a maroon green center. Blooms for most of the summer. Strong chocolate fragrance. New blossoms every day; fades in the afternoon.
Soil
Well-drained soils.
Notes
Interesting seedheads. Plant reseeds readily.
Exposure
Full Sun
Water
Requirement
Hardiness
(map)
5 to 9
User
Reviews
Average Rating =
(out of 5)
66.6666666666667% of people who rated this plant
would recommend it to a friend
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Don S. Anderson - Salt Lake City and Fillmore -
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Z 5 -
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Although fun with its chololate sented flowers, I find this plant rangy. This year I'm trying it interplanted with Guara, another somewhat rangy plant. Perhaps together they will fill each other in.
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- West Jordan -
UT -
Z 5 -
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It looks great early in the day and then fades. I think if I had lots of them I could smell it better.I like the idea of a plant that will bloom for months with little water or TLC so I will keep it.
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If I planted these for just flowers i would be disappointed, though they do flower well they are leggy and the blossoms close every afternoon. But to walk through your garden and have the fragrance of chocolate wafting through the air I will take the rangy plant. I mix it in with other perennials and enjoy the scent.
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