This upright annual has slender stems with drooping branchlets that form a bushy habit. It has oblong grey-green leaves and the yellow to purplish tube-shaped flowers appear in pendant clusters from spring to summer.   

Hardiness zones 7 to 10 

Cerinthe major is naturally found in the Mediterranean region from Portugal to Spain, Italy and Turkey growing in rocky sites and grasslands along the coast and inland. 

It prefers a well drained moderately fertile soil that is tending alkaline in an open sunny to semi shaded position and is drought and frost tolerant.

Honeywort is grown for its flowers and is planted in annual beds for colour or used along front perennial borders for small or cottage and mediterranean gardens. It is suitable for coastal regions establishing in one season and may be grown in patio pots or rockeries. ID 2870

Cerinthe (SEER-in-fe) major (MAY-jah)

Boraginaceae (BOR-ah-jin-AY-see-ee)
Lungwort