Heuchera plant named ‘Wild Rose’

Abstract

The new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant named Wild Rose with large foliage with rounded apices and lobe, leaf blades of rosy-purple with dark mahogany surrounding the veins and without silver overlay between the veins. Panicles are dark burgundy with matching buds that open for a rosy-pink effect for five weeks beginning late spring. The new plant is vigorous and produces large clumps with many large leaves.

Claims

1. The new and distinct coral bells plant named Heuchera Wild Rose as herein described and illustrated.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the overall appearance of the plant including the unique traits. The colors are as accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Some slight variation of color may occur as a result of lighting quality, intensity, wavelength, and direction or reflection.

(2) FIG. 1 shows a close-up of the flowers.

(3) FIG. 2 shows a one-year-old plant in a container just before flowering.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

(4) The following description is based on a one-year-old plant growing in a partially shaded greenhouse in Zeeland, Mich., USA. The new plant has not been grown under all possible environments and may phenotypically appear different under different conditions such as light, temperatures, fertilizer, and water, without any difference in genotype. The color descriptions used are from the 2001 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common dictionary terms are used. Parentage: Female or seed parent was the proprietary unreleased hybrid known only by the breeder code 12-45-01 (not patented) and the pollen or male parent was Georgia Plum; Plant habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial with basal rosette of foliage; mounded foliage about 25 cm tall and 48 cm in diameter with scapes to about 65 cm long; stems to about 4.0 cm long and 2.0 cm diameter at base with about 15 to 18 leaves per stem and five main stems per plant; Roots: Fibrous, finely branched; Growth rate: Rapid, rooting from cutting in two weeks and finishing in three-liter container in about 3 months; Foliage: Cordate, minutely puberulent adaxial and abaxial; palmately shallowly lobed with five main lobes dissected less than one-fifth the way to petiole; apex and lobe apices rounded, base cordate to auriculate with basal lobes typically overlapping about 0.5 cm; margins crenate to mucronate, hirsutulous; lustrous adaxial and abaxial; held nearly horizontal; margin weakly undulated; Leaf blade size: To about 13.5 cm wide and 12.5 cm long, average about 12.0 cm wide and 11.0 cm long; Leaf color: Spring and young emerging leaves adaxial between RHS 187B and RHS 187C and with no silver and dark green marbling surrounding the veins, spring young emerging leaves abaxial nearest RHS N186D; mature mid-season leaves adaxial nearest RHS N77B between the veins and between RHS N186B and RHS 187A surrounding the veins, abaxial mature mid-season leaves nearest RHS N186C; fall and winter color adaxial variable, nearest RHS N77B, N199A and RHS 199A with area surrounding veins nearest RHS N186A, fall and winter color abaxial blend between RHS N79A and RHS N79B; Leaf quantity: Dense, about 80 per plant; Veins: Palmate, hirsutulous abaxial and adaxial; costate abaxial, slightly impressed adaxial; Vein color: Emerging or early spring adaxial between RHS 187B and RHS 187C with emerging spring abaxial between RHS N79C and RHS N79B; mid-season and flowering time adaxial between RHS N77A and RHS N77B, mid-season and flowering time abaxial nearest RHS N79B; Petiole: Terete, base amplexicaul; with pubescent hairs to about 2.0 mm long; average about 11.0 cm long and about 3.0 mm diameter above stipule and 12.0 mm at base including stipule; Petiole color: Emerging leaf blend between RHS N79C and RHS N79B; mature leaf near base of petiole nearest RHS N186C, distally between RHS 146A and RHS 146B with blush of nearest RHS N186C; Stipule: At base of petiole, about 1.6 cm long and about 1.3 cm wide at base; Stipule color: Adaxial between RHS N79A and RHS N79B, abaxial nearest RHS N79B; Peduncle: Panicle; terete; stiff; pubescent; upright; to about 65.0 cm long and 3.5 mm diameter at base, average about 62 cm tall and 3.0 mm diameter; about fourteen per plant with up to 175 flowers per panicle, average about 150; tightly-branched panicle with up to 21 branches up to 8.0 cm long and 1.0 mm diameter decreasing distally, average 16 branches per panicle; lower branches mostly upright becoming drooping distally; flower density moderate; Flowering longevity: Panicle effective for about four to five weeks; Peduncle color: Blend between RHS 187A and RHS N186B; Pedicel: Terete, pubescent; about 4.0 mm long and 0.3 mm diameter, attitude drooping; Pedicel color: Between RHS N186D and RHS 187C; Buds one day prior to opening: Ellipsoid; rounded apex and attenuate base; puberulent to glandular; about 4.5 mm long and 2.5 mm diameter; Bud color one day prior to opening: Basal portion nearest RHS 61A, distally becoming between RHS 64A and RHS 64B; Flower: Perfect, campanulate, actinomorphic, about 8.0 mm long and 6.0 mm in diameter at face; individual flowers lasting about 4 days on plant or as cut flower; Flower attitude: Drooping; Calyx: Five, apex rounded, base fused in proximal 4.5 mm to form hypanthium; pubescent abaxial, glabrous adaxial; about 8.0 mm long and 6.0 mm wide; Calyx color: Aabaxial basal half nearest RHS 70B, distally lightening to nearest RHS 73D; Petals: Five, oblanceolate to spatulate, rounded apex and attenuate base, entire, glabrous abaxial, puberulent adaxial, about 5.5 mm long and 1.0 mm wide in middle; Petal color: Abaxial and adaxial distally nearest RHS N155C, adaxial and abaxial base lighter than RHS 155D; Androecium: Five adnate to adaxial sepal about 1.0 mm above base; Filaments.Five, thin, glabrous; about 3.0 mm long and less than 0.3 mm diameter; color white, lighter than RHS 155D. Anthers.Ellipsoidal, distinct, basifixed, longitudinal; color nearest RHS 25B. Pollen.Abundant; color nearest RHS N25A. Gynoecium: One, two-beaked; half-inferior; bifid style with pistil split at ovary; 8.5 mm long; Style.Bifid; split apart at apex of ovary; about 6.0 mm long and about 0.5 mm diameter; color lighter than RHS N155D distally and proximally nearest RHS 62D. Stigma.Acute apex, about 0.1 mm diameter, color lighter than RHS 155D. Ovary.Half-inferior, about 2.5 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter; ellipsoidal to globose, base rounded; color nearest RHS 150D. Fruit and seeds have not yet been observed; Disease and pest tolerance: The new plant grows best with ample moisture and drainage in either part sun or full shade. Cold hardy from USDA zones 4 to 9. Other resistance and tolerance outside of that normal for Heuchera is not known.