Actaea (Ranunculaceae) BSWJ10860

yesoensis

From one of our seed collections gathered in the cold Hakkodoshan area of northern Honshu, Japan in the autumn of 2005. An impressive perennial, from shortly creeping rhizomes from which upright branching stems arose, with divided thin textured leaves and upright spikes of long bottle-brush like white flowers to 1.2m tall August-September in this collection. Easily grown in any type of fertile drained soil in sun or shade. Syn. Cimicifuga.