Shade-loving perennial delights in gardens
Western Bugbane features flowers that are showy, fragrant, and unusual in that they have no petals.
(Photo courtesy KINNIKINNICK NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY)
Also called False Bugbane and Tassel-rue, Western Bugbane (Trautvatteria caroliniensis) is named for Russian botanist Ernest Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809-1889). During his career, von Trautvetter was the director of botanical gardens in Kiev and St. Petersburg...
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