Rytinė laumenė – Doronicum orientale

Rytinė laumenė

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant nameRytinė laumenė
Latin plant nameDoronicum orientale Hoffmans.
English plant nameEastern Leopard’s-Bane
TYPE OF PARTERRE
  • Clump, beds (mixborder)
  • Flowerbed, parterres
  • Groups
  • Rockery, retaining walls
  • Cemetery
  • Combination with woody plants
ASSORTMENTmain
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil
  • average wet soils
Lighting
  • Heliophilous
  • Half heliophobic
Spacing, cmFrom 30 to 40
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height
  • short – 21-40 cm
  • middle height – 41- 60 cm
Habitusflower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color
  • green
Blossom color
  • yellow, yellow tints
Blooming time
  • spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
  • 1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade
Blooming period1 month
General ornamentalityaverage decorative
Ornamentality duration, months4
Groupintermediate type perennial (grown 5-6 years)
Bioecological groupPerennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, scrub division. 1500 seeds per 1 gram, 1000 seedlings per 10 grams of seeds sown. Some varieties‘ seeds do not always mature, seedlings do not get all parent plant characteristics. Seedlings grow slowly and begin blooming in the second and third year. Scrub is divided between August and September, also between April and May. It starts blooming in the same year if propagated in Spring.