🌸 Flower
ANX-FLOWER-0000041
Love-in-a-Mist
Nigella damascena
Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella damascena), an upright bushy annual of the Ranunculaceae family, bears pale blue saucer-shaped flowers set in a ruff of thread-like foliage, followed by ornamental inflated seed capsules.
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- Ranunculaceae
- Plant type
- Annual
- Bloom color
- Pale blue (also white, pink, purple in cultivars)
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Mature height
- 20-50 cm cm
- Sun requirements
- Full sun
- Fragrance
- Little to no fragrance
- Native region
- Southern Europe, North Africa
Growing
Growing Conditions
- Water requirements
- Moderate; prefers well-drained soil, not waterlogged.
- Climate requirements
- Hardy annual (RHS H3); best in a sheltered, south- or west-facing site.
- Soil types
- Chalk, loam, or sand; well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil.
- Propagation method
- Seed sown in situ
Ecology
Pollinators & Toxicity
- Pollinator value
- Grown as a recommended pollinator and wildlife-garden plant.
- Toxicity
- Not listed as toxic to pets; the seeds contain alkaloids and are not recommended for human consumption in quantity.
Use
Uses & Economic Importance
- Uses
- Cut flowers, dried seed pods for arrangements, cottage gardens, wildlife gardens
- Economic importance
- Minor commercial role as a cut-flower and dried-seedpod crop for florists; a garden relative of the culinary spice plant Nigella sativa.
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