Pleurospermum (Apiaceae) BSWJ12627

camtschaticum See Dystaenia takesimana

A long lived sturdy perennial originating from one of our seed collections gathered from the remote island of Ullüngdõ 80km off the north-eastern coast of South Korea in the autumn of 2010. Where it grew under small trees and large shrubs on the steep banks close to the sea, forming plants to 2m tall where we saw them (Obtaining 2.7m in sun in our garden). With basal rosettes of twice ternately pinnately lobed leaves to 75cm long, the leaflets narrowly ovate. Flowering in a wide flat topped umbel of many small white flowers in July-August followed by rounded flat seed. Easily cultivated in either part shade or full sun, in a fertile soil that affords some good drainage.