(syn: Plectranthus longitubus) I'll bet you never thought of growing rabdosia before...right? From the Japanese mountains of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu comes this woodland member of the salvia family. The stems of this clumper rise throughout the summer, reaching 2' tall by September, when they are topped with 1' long, airy panicles containing hundreds of pendent, purple tubes. This is as hard to describe as it is to pronounce, but finding anything that flowers in the fall woodland is difficult...simply superb!
.jpg "Epimedium wushanense (Wushan Fairy Wings)")
