Scarlet Tanager
This is one of the four “little reds” Saunders introduced from the crosses between these two European species. Any of them are worth having in your garden. Supposedly a difficult to grow plant but it has done well enough for me.
| Cultivar: | Scarlet Tanager |
| Year: | 1942 |
| Seedling No: | 9062. Page 56 of Saunders’ Notebook III |
| Parentage: | 22: officinalis Rubra Plena X “lobata of Perry” |
| Flower: | Color: | brilliant scarlet |
| Form: | single, 8 petals, rounded, small flowers | |
| Blooms: | Week 3 or 4 | |
| Carpels: | 2-3, pale green, woolly | |
| Stigmas: | very light pink | |
| Disc: | white, partly visible | |
| Stamens: | red at base, shading to white at top | |
| Plant: | Habit: | spreading bush; can sprawl |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | deeply lobed | |
| Height: | taller than the other plants from this cross; 31″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Recommended |
| Availability: | Rarely available and pricey |
