'Great Solomon's Seal' kahm-you-TAH-tum
Native to North America from New Hampshire to Manitoba to Mexico. 6-7 feet tall stems with leaves 5-7 inches long. Large thick stems with 3-8 flowers clustered at the leaf axis on long peduncles (stems). The flowers are 3/4 inches long and greenish in color. A great plant with tall arching stems for shade and part shade, clumps with 5- 10 stems or plants solitary. The plant that I have grows to six+ feet tall. It has nice strong stems that come straight up from the ground to about three feet then begin a gentle arch. In the wild these plants are isolated single stems in habit but in cultivation grow into nice clumps. Slow growing and will take some afternoon sun. Does well in moist soils. Now lumped under P. bilorum, but to me, seems incorrect. A tall, large plant that will have from 6 to 8 foot long stems.
Zones 3-8. Seeds need a prolonged cold period before germination -- some times two cold periods are needed so do not discard seeds for three years.
30 seeds
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