Showing posts with label Snakeroot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snakeroot. Show all posts

Sunday 12 July 2015

Snakeroot or Bugbane



This woodland plant, native to the eastern United States, is not well known but really a delight to grow. Its flowers tall fuzzy white spikes. The leaves are attractive and fernlike rather like that of astilbe. Cimicifuga racemosa grows five to six feet tall, sometimes even taller and flowers in mid to late summer and flowers in mid to late summer sometimes earlier. C. simplex grows about three feet tall and blooms in fall. Moreover both species like part shade and moist, woodsy soil, but C. Simplex will do well in full sun. Division is not necessary but the stems often need to be stake up to where the flower begins.