This long-blooming native hybrid skullcap covers itself with a profusion of dark violet flowers held on short compact flower spikes. Scutellaria ‘Dark Violet’ blooms most of the summer and its neat, mounding habit enables ‘Dark Violet’ to be planted along the edges of hot, sunny paths. The hotter and harsher the growing conditions, the better it performs. This plant will stay compact at 6 inches tall and 10 to 15 inches wide, and it is cold hardy in Zones 5-8. It works well planted with Salvia greggii, Coreopsis and Lavender.