Isodon effusus Mediterranean Europe 16" bottlebrush spikes of bright

16" bottlebrush spikes of bright orange flowers

They prefer light

The rounded corrugated cupped leaves have a unique sheen

for potpourri

and you have Baptisia minor

Isodon effusus Mediterranean Europe 16" bottlebrush spikes of bright(aka: Rabdosia effusus (longituba), Plectranthus effusus) From the Japanese mountains of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu comes this woodland member of the salvia family formerly Rabdosia longituba, before its reassignment to the genus Plectranthus, then to the genus Isodon. The stems of the clumping Isodon effusus rise throughout the summer, reaching 2' tall by September when they are topped with 1' long, airy panicles containing hundreds of pendent,