Dodecatheon meadia Album

The Dodecatheon meadia 'Album' is a variety with white flowers of the Virginia Cowslip. This little-known plant develops a rosette of leaves reminiscent of primroses, and bears floral stems gracefully hanging with superb white flowers with yellow and brown centres, in the shape of inverted bells, on long peduncles. Enchanting, this small perennial stands out with a particularly short vegetation cycle and a somewhat delicate culture. It is a precious little gem to be grown indispensably in humus-bearing soil, remaining moist, neutral to acidic, but fertile, and in a semi-shaded or brightly shaded area.

The Dodecatheon meadia is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Primulaceae, native to the eastern United States, from Pennsylvania to Texas and Louisiana. The 'Album' variety forms in spring a rosette of pale green, oval to obovate leaves, obtuse, sometimes slightly toothed at the edges, with red hues towards the base, measuring 10 to 20 cm in length. In spring, from April to June depending on the climate, 15 to 45 cm floral stems emerge from the rosettes, carrying at their tips a small cluster of 10 to 15 flowers. Their white petals completely turned back reveal prominent stamens with yellow-orange anthers. Less than three months pass between the appearance of foliage and entering dormancy in summer.