Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock sending up tall

sending up tall

and the plant finishes the year in excellent burgundy-red fall color

a lean sunny border

and particular about water: acidic soil

usually in pairs

Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock sending up tallThis plant is a botanical time machine. Sarcandra glabra belongs to the Chloranthaceae, a flowering plant family with only four surviving genera worldwide and a fossil record reaching back into the Early Cretaceous, more than a hundred million years ago. Pollen and floral fossils of the Chloranthaceae are among the earliest evidence of flowering plants anywhere on Earth, and the family was already abundant when the dinosaurs were only in their middle