NAME: Punching Balls

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Pink Buttons / Pink Knotweed / Pinkhead Smartweed / Pink Fleece Flower

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Persicaria Capitata syn. Polygonum Capitatum

COLOR: Pink

PLANT SEEDS: At 70 - 75F

BLOOM TIME: Spring - Fall

HARDINESS ZONE: 7 - 11

PLANT HEIGHT: 4 - 6"

PLANT SPACING: 12 - 18"

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average

QUANTITY: 20 Seeds

OTHER: Punching Balls is a low growing plant with reddish green foliage that turns completely dark red. The pink flowers cover the plant in neat round ball-like clusters. They are a repeat bloomer, with flowers spring to fall. Punching Balls is fast growing, so can easily be grown as an annual in zones cooler than 7. The plants can be used as a ground cover, in rock gardens, spilling over walls & out of baskets, or naturalized. Punching Balls reseeds, & can spread quickly in some climates (for better or worse). Birds enjoy eating the seeds, so will stop by & take a few off of your hands.