The flowers are greenish or red-tinged and ¼
inches long. Many urn-shaped flowers are
arranged in panicles on stems 12-18 inches long.
Late
spring to early summer.
Leaves are mostly basal, rounded, with cordate
bases. The leaf blades are 3 inches wide, have toothed and
lobed margins with scattered stiff pubescence on the
upper and lower leaf surfaces. The young foliage is
flushed and veined coppery-brown, the mature foliage a
deep green.
'Dale's Strain' - Silver-blue marbled foliage, 12-15 inches
tall, makes an excellent groundcover and is fairly
tolerant of dry soils. It is seed propagated.
'Garnet' - This cultivar is a clump-forming groundcover
suited for dry and sunny or shady sites. Its main asset
is the deep garnet winter foliage and the bright garnet
foliage in the spring. It will create a solid carpet of
vegetation in one year when planted on 12-15 inches
spacing.
'Pewter Veil' - The foliage has
metallic silver leaves with an underay of purplish
color.
