Blue Daze Brazillian Evolvulus is a pretty perennial mounding groundcover plant that may reach a foot tall with a 20- to 24-inch spread at maturity. Its solitary sky-blue flowers grow at the tips of hairy stems from spring through to autumn in cold hardiness zones 9a to 11.
Pollinators including many bee and wasp species are attracted to Blue Daze Evolvulus flowers. In turn, the pollinators may be eaten by predators like reptiles and birds.
ABOVE: Blue Daze, (Evolvulus glomeratus subsp. grandiflorus) is the popular Brazilian nonnative sold commercially. It has escaped cultivation on the South Florida Keys in Monroe County. It has five bright blue, fused petals with a white throat and stamens. It is not invasive, but is spread by seeds and is commercially propagated by cuttings for the nursery trade. RIGHT: Pollinators including many bee and wasp species are attracted to Blue Daze Evolvulus flowers. In turn, the pollinators may be eaten by predators like reptiles and birds.
Blue Daze Brazillian Evolvulus is a pretty perennial mounding groundcover plant that may reach a foot tall with a 20- to 24-inch spread at maturity. Its solitary sky-blue flowers grow at the tips of hairy stems from spring through to autumn in cold hardiness zones 9a to 11.
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Pollinators including many bee and wasp species are attracted to Blue Daze Evolvulus flowers. In turn, the pollinators may be eaten by predators like reptiles and birds.
ABOVE: Blue Daze, (Evolvulus glomeratus subsp. grandiflorus) is the popular Brazilian nonnative sold commercially. It has escaped cultivation on the South Florida Keys in Monroe County. It has five bright blue, fused petals with a white throat and stamens. It is not invasive, but is spread by seeds and is commercially propagated by cuttings for the nursery trade. RIGHT: Pollinators including many bee and wasp species are attracted to Blue Daze Evolvulus flowers. In turn, the pollinators may be eaten by predators like reptiles and birds.
Blue Daze is an Evolvulus subspecies of morning glory that is not a twiner but grows instead in low-growing mounds. A favorite perennial, this nonnative ornamental is in the large Convolvulus (morning glory) family that has 60 genera and about 1650 species, most with funnel-shaped flowers.
The Evolvulus genus has about 100 species, mostly from the Americas. Growing in the wild, Florida has four native species as well as Blue Daze which evolved in Brazil, South America.
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