Hardiness zones
Sunset All zones (some colder zones as a summer annual)
USDA All zones (some colder zones as a summer annual)

Landscape Use: Soft textual accent and low spreading ground gover for shaded mesic rock gardens, container plants.

Form & Character: Evergreen perennial, soft, delicate, velvety, peaceful, quite

Growth Habit: Slowly clumping and spreading (in desert climates) to 2' to 5'.

Foliage/texture: Flattened, strongly pubscent, greyish gren to greenish white, elongated ovate leaves to 2" to 4" long with short petiole, medium texture.

Flowers & fruits: Inconspicuous small, sessile, purple flowers on a spike; should be removed upon emergence.

Seasonal color: None.

Temperature: Tolerant to 0^oF

Light: Partial to full shade. NO western sun and western exposures in Phoenix.

Soil: Well-drained best

Watering: Regular irrigations

Pruning: Only contain spread if problematic.

Propagation: Division

Disease and pests: Root rot if soil is wet.

Additional comments: A wonderful old fashion perennial border plant. Lamb's ear plants might dieback or become stressed during Phoenix summer months. Lamb's ear cultivars include:

• 'Big Ears' - leaves very large, up to 1 foot tall.
• 'Cotton Ball' - a sterile cultivar that does not produce flowering stems. Asexually propagated.
• 'Primrose Heron' - leaves yellow in spring; flowers pink.
• 'Sheila Macqueen' - sterile; low-growing; leaves large.
• 'Silky Fleece' - grows 1 foot tall with lilac-plum flowers, produce smaller white-woolly foliage. Seed propagated.
• 'Silver Carpet' - sterile, no flowers; leaves grey. Asexually propagated.
• 'Striped Phantom' - leaves variegated.

There are about 300 different species of Stachys.