v.VIVID

Physostegia virginiana `Vivid', bright pink, 20-30", June-August. Be careful where you plant this! Spreads vigorously from rhizomes. We like to say it forms a patch but that patch can run and run and run not knowing the race is over! use it purposefully. I've seen in around mail boxes making show. I don't know if the mailman's got stung yet but I'm sure he kept delivering the mail. The common name "Obedient Plant" comes to play as the stems may lay over and the stem and flower will curve and keep going. Basically if you turn the stem it will stay that way. Grows where nothing else will grow also. That's really a good thing if you think about it. NATIVE! Sun is best. Will run the triathalon if put in shade! zone4 "Obedient Plant", "False Dragonhead" because the flower spike looks like the back of a dragon!