Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' Check with George Straight from the branch the

Straight from the branch the flavor is still too sharp for most

wind-borne seed

aromatic when brushed or crushed

flowering reliably into USDA zone 5

lean sand and excellent drainage

Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' Check with George Straight from the branch theThe turtlehead is named twice over for things that go quiet. The genus Chelone is the Greek word for tortoise, after a nymph who mocked the marriage of Zeus and Hera and was turned, for her insolence, into a creature that carries her house and holds her tongue; one look at the flower, a hinged, swollen, pink and gaping thing that seems about to either speak or bite, and you see why the name stuck. The species honors John Lyon, the Scottish plant