Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead - Delivered By ServeScape
Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead-ServeScape
Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead-ServeScape
Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead - Delivered By ServeScape
Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead-ServeScape
Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02' ~ Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead-ServeScape

Chelone obliqua 'Armtipp02'

Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead

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**Dormancy Note - This plant may be currently dormant for the fall/winter! It is still available for purchase! Your delivered plant may be dormant, or showing very little top growth. However, you can still plant! These plants are putting all their energy into root production, so they will be ready to thrive in the spring! If you have any issues with your plant the following peak season, you can fill out our return request form to request a replacement plant.

Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead is a stiffly erect native herbaceous perennial with coarsely toothed lace-shaped foliage that emerges bronze and matures to dark green.  The hooded deep pink two lipped flowers bloom on tight spike-like terminals from late summer into fall.   Flowers best in part shade and consistently moist to wet rich well-drained acidic soils.  Tiny Tortuga is disease resistant.

Type: 

Perennial

Origins:

Eastern N. America; GA Native

Height: 

1' - 1.5'

Spread: 

1.5’ - 2'

Spacing: 

1.5'

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

4 - 8

Culture: 

Full Sun, Part Sun

Bloom Color: 

Pink

Season of Interest: 

Summer, Fall

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance.  Some susceptibility to mildew if soils too dry or lack air circulation.  May need staking if grown in too deep of shade.
LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Naturalized Areas, Wildlife Garden, Foundation Plantings, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Cardinal Flower, Marsh Marigold, Blue Flag

IMAGE: Photo by F. D. Richards, Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead, (2) Photoset by F. D. Richards, Chelone lyonii 'Armtipp02’, 2018 photo (1)+(2), Chelone lyonii ‘Armtipp02’, 2015

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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