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Light Requirements: Full Sun/Part Shade

Soil Moisture: Medium dry/dry

Bloom Color: Red

Bloom Time: July-August

Height: 3-4 ft.

Root Structure:

Deer Resistant? Not sure

Black Walnut tolerant? Yes

Grown from local seed? No

USDA zones: 4-8

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Royal Catchfly (Silene regia)

$6.00

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I'm native to North America but not NY state.

I should be planted in gardens, but not in wild spaces.

Hummingbirds and black swallowtails love my flowers

I am tolerant of clay soil

I attract hummingbirds, butterflies and moths

I have sticky hairs on my calyx to deter ants from stealing my nectar, so I’m sometimes called catchfly.

When insects get caught on my calyx and die, I have an enzyme that quickly breaks down the insect to they don’t become putrid.

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