How to Grow and Care for Meehania

The stem is upright, the height is 15 to 30 cm, long hairs are sparse, and the whole grass is fragrant. After the flower, a long running branch that crawls on the ground is taken out from under the stem. Leaves are opposite and have a petiole of 2 to 3 cm in length, a triangular heart shape, a length of 2 to 5 cm, a width of 2 to 3.5 cm, a leaf edge is a blunt sawtooth, and the base is a heart Become a shape. The wings are approximately 1.3 cm long, with 15 veins, the tip is shallow and split into five, and sparsely open hairs. The flowers are bright purple in the shape of lips. The corolla is 4 to 5 cm in length, the upper lip is split into two short, the lower lip is split into three, the central fissure is large, it curls downward and split into two shallowly, and there is a dark purple pattern on the white background, the throat There are long hairs that open at the tip of. The foliage at the base of the flower is almost the same as the leaf at the bottom, and becomes smaller when going up. The sepals are deep reddish purple than the flowers and stand out after the flowers.

Japanese dead nettle is a perennial flower that can be found in shady areas of coniferous or mixed forests. Due to its prostrate growth form, japanese dead nettle is sometimes used in ornamental gardens as a groundcover.

Despite its unusual lilac flowers, the rare perennial meehania henryi is not typically found in ornamental gardens. You'll need to visit China if you want to see the plant, since it is native to riversides and mid-altitude forests there. This plant is named Meehania henryi after the noted botanist Augustine Henry (1857-1930).

Meehania fargesii var. radicans (Meehania fargesii var. radicans) is a perennial that is sometimes used in landscaping as a ground cover because of its naturally spreading growth habit. It is a variety of the species commonly called the Japanese dead nettle (Meehania fargesii). It requires a shady garden placement which is similar to its natural habitat of damp cloud forests.