Rodgersia Podophylla (Saxifragaceae)
Rodgersia is a big, bold plant that is grown mostly for its large and striking foliage. The leaves are palmately compound with five deeply veined leaves that look like a big oak leaf. They emerge in the spring a golden bronze color, and go green in the summer when it puts up a stalk of small, cream colored, astilbe-like flowers from June to August. In the fall the leaves turn a bronze red making it a great plant for all seasons. It is native to wooded stream banks in Korea and Japan so it does best in moist, cool soils and part shade. Spreads from the crown with rhizomatous roots, but slowly and not in an invasive way. Rodgersia is named for Admiral John Rodgers who”discovered” it and brought the plant back from an expedition to the Pacific.
Rodgersia is a big, bold plant that is grown mostly for its large and striking foliage. The leaves are palmately compound with five deeply veined leaves that look like a big oak leaf. They emerge in the spring a golden bronze color, and go green in the summer when it puts up a stalk of small, cream colored, astilbe-like flowers from June to August. In the fall the leaves turn a bronze red making it a great plant for all seasons. It is native to wooded stream banks in Korea and Japan so it does best in moist, cool soils and part shade. Spreads from the crown with rhizomatous roots, but slowly and not in an invasive way. Rodgersia is named for Admiral John Rodgers who”discovered” it and brought the plant back from an expedition to the Pacific.
Rodgersia is a big, bold plant that is grown mostly for its large and striking foliage. The leaves are palmately compound with five deeply veined leaves that look like a big oak leaf. They emerge in the spring a golden bronze color, and go green in the summer when it puts up a stalk of small, cream colored, astilbe-like flowers from June to August. In the fall the leaves turn a bronze red making it a great plant for all seasons. It is native to wooded stream banks in Korea and Japan so it does best in moist, cool soils and part shade. Spreads from the crown with rhizomatous roots, but slowly and not in an invasive way. Rodgersia is named for Admiral John Rodgers who”discovered” it and brought the plant back from an expedition to the Pacific.