There are about 25 species of erect to spreading annuals and herbaceous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur in woodland and dry, rocky areas, or grassy slopes from Northern Africa to Central Asia and the Mediterranean region. \u00a0They produce simple or branching stems that have hairy leaves 1 \u00bc-6\u201d long. \u00a0In summer it bears blue to purple or orange-yellow to cream large flowers in short, coiled usually terminal cymes.<\/p>\n
This plant is difficult to grow, best grown in partial shade in moist but sharply to well-drained soil, will tolerate full sun if kept moist.<\/p>\n
Prone to aphids<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and spider mites<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n Arnebia pulchra \u2013 Arnebia echioides \u2013 Echioides longiflorum \u2013 Macrotomia Echioides \u2013 Prophet Flower <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This most adaptable clump forming perennial from the Caucasus, Turkey, and Northern Iran grows 15\u201d tall and a little less in width. \u00a0It produces tuft basal lance to oblong, stiffly hairy, light green leaves to 6\u201d long. \u00a0In summer it bears terminal cymes of 5 petalled, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers to 1\u201d wide flowers that have a red-brown spot that fades with age.<\/p>\n Zones 6-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arnebia There are about 25 species of erect to spreading annuals and herbaceous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur in woodland and dry, rocky areas, or grassy slopes from Northern Africa to Central Asia and the Mediterranean region. \u00a0They produce simple or branching stems that have hairy leaves 1 \u00bc-6\u201d long. \u00a0In summer it bears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[55,41,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251859"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}