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Globularia x indubia (Globe Daisy) - This is an unusual and attractive small, dense shrub that grows to 2 to 3 feet tall by up to 5 feet wide with dark olive-green 2 inch long lance-shaped leaves. The dark lavender-blue flower buds open to reveal 1-inch wide globular flower heads with white petals that have lavender blue margins. Flowering commences in early spring and continues through summer.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant but looks better with occasional irrigation. Plants in our demonstration garden were tip damaged after 3 consecutive nights down to 25° F in the January 2007 freeze and resprouted after a stock plant was frozen to the ground when it dropped to18° F in the December 1990 freeze.
Globularia x indubia is the naturally occurring hybrid between two species. Globularia sarcophylla and Globularia salicina, whose ranges overlap in the Tirajana region of Gran Canaria Island. The Globe Daisies are so named because they appear to be small round daisies but were long considered to be in there own own family, the Globulariaceae, which has been more recently merged into the huge and ever growing Plantain family, the Plantaginaceae. The name for the genus comes from the Latin 'globulus' which in the diminutive form of 'globus' meaning "round head" or "sphere" in reference to the rounded shape of the flower heads. We have sold this plant since 1991 from plants that were first grown from seed received from the Huntington Botanic Garden.
Information displayed on this page about Globularia x indubia is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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