Sparkling Windflower
The foliage on this F2 is certainly much wider than on ‘Early Windflower’ or ‘Late Windflower’ and the red coloration comes from the P. veitchi parentage. (Hong treats veitchi as a subspecies of anomala but recent DNA analysis has caused others to treat it as a species.) The bloom time is considerably later than its parents (about 3 weeks later in 2020 although planted in the same bed). Silvia Saunders mentioned several F2 plants in her notes, all of which sound intriguing but most seem to have disappeared.
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Cultivar: | Sparkling Windflower |
Year: | 1971 (Silvia Saunders/David Reath) |
Seedling No: | not known |
Parentage: | 15B: F2 of ‘Early Windflower’ ‘Early Windflower’ = (anomala veitchi X emodi) |
Flower: | Color: | dark bright pink with white flares on outside of petals |
Form: | single, 10 petals, somewhat fluted edges, small flowers | |
Blooms: | Week 4 | |
Carpels: | 2-3, green | |
Stigmas: | pink | |
Disc: | white, conspicuous | |
Stamens: | filaments are white | |
Plant: | Habit: | rounded to spreading bush |
Foliage color: | medium green | |
Foliage form: | fairly narrow, mostly lobed | |
Height: | 36″ (reported); 30″ in 2021 | |
Recommendation: | Highly recommended |
Availability: | Few specialty nurseries |