Maltese Cross Flower Seeds

Maltese cross lychnis chalcedonica is an easy to grow perennial that reseeds itself producing clusters of five petaled scarlet flowers that attract hummingbirds bees and butterflies.

Maltese cross flower seeds. Each bloom will open up to roughly a half inch to an inch in diameter while each cluster of flowers contains anywhere from 10 to 50 blooms. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and has gained the royal horticultural society s award of garden merit. Plant maltese cross in the back of the flower garden. Grow maltese cross from fresh lychnis chalcedonica wildflower seeds.

Cover then lightly with soil and then keep them moist until germination. One of the classic plants for the herbaceous border bearing in the summer brilliant scarlet flowers each shaped like a maltese cross in dense clusters. Preferring full sun look for maltese cross to bloom summer into fall. The maltese cross flower structure resembles this historical graphic which is now a common firefighter symbol.

Try them in naturalized landscape. Historians believe the maltese cross flower was brought to europe during the crusades of the middle ages by the knights of malta. Easy to grow and very hardy it is also a fine bog plant. Maltese cross produces clusters of small red cross shaped flowers.

Chalcedonica is an erect herbaceous perennial to 1m in height with oval leaves and small bright vermilion flowers in compact domed heads 10 12cm in width. Sow seeds indoors in spring 6 to 8 weeks before the last spring frost date. Hardy throughout the british isles. Maltese cross is also called.

Silene chalcedonica commonly called lychnis chalcedonica the maltese cross flower of bristol jerusalem cross or nonesuch is a species of flowering plant in the family caryophyllaceae native to central and eastern russia kazakhstan mongolia and northwestern china. This middle east connection also lends to it s other name the jerusalem cross flower. A unique perennial wildflower maltese cross or dusty salmon nonesuch or jerusalem cross depending on the part of the country you come from blooms clusters of rose colored flowers atop tall stems. The plants themselves grow to a mature height of about 24 to 36 inches tall.

Genus lychnis can be biennials or perennials with simple leaves and tubular salver shaped or star shaped flowers in terminal clusters details l. Maltese cross prefers consistently moist soil once transplanted outdoors.