Tai Wan Li Lu

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Long-lived perennial

Native distribution

Taiwan

Location

Groundcover Collection

Source of plant

Far Reaches Farm, Gardens North, Seneca Hill Perennials

Description

Plants stout, to more than 30cm tall, basally usually with blackish, reticulate fibers formed from disintegrated sheaths. Leaves sessile, basally somewhat clasping; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, 12-20 — 1-2cm, glabrous. Panicle many flowered; rachis densely woolly; bracts deltoid-lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 cm, glabrous. Pedicel 1-1.5cm, densely woolly. Tepals dark purple, rarely white, oblanceolate, 1-1.5cm — 2-3mm, glabrous, base slightly cuneate. Ovary glabrous. Capsule ca. 2 — 1.3 cm. Seeds ca. 8 mm, winged.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5