NARGS Plant of the Month

Peltoboykinia watanabei

Description and General Information:

This species is native to alpine woodlands of Japan.  The plants forms a low clump with leaves 30-50 cm high, and flower stems reaching 30-60 cm. Plants produce rhizomes and can eventually reach 30-60 cm across. The shiny leaves are palmate, rounded and deeply incised.  New foliage is often pink-tinted. The flowers are held in loose clusters.  Individual flowers are small, somewhat nodding and shuttlecock-shaped, creamy-yellow to yellow-green. The petals have distinctly fringed...