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Cephalaria leucantha is a tall, hardy perennial from southern Europe and northwest Africa, grown for its white or pale lemon flowers from summer into autumn. It needs full sun and well-drained soil.
Cephalaria leucantha is a species of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae.
This species is present in northern Africa and in southern Europe (Albania, former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain).
Alpine Scabious · Anatolian Cephalaria · Cephalaria duzceensis · Tatarian cephalaria · Cephalaria tuteliana · False Scabiosa · Succisa pentaphylla
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cephalaria leucantha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
