Darmera
Template:Short description Template:Speciesbox
Darmera peltata, the Indian rhubarb or umbrella plant, is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae.[1] It is a slowly spreading rhizomatous perennial native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (western Oregon to northwestern California), growing to Script error: No such module "convert". tall by Script error: No such module "convert". wide. The name Darmera honors Karl Darmer, a 19th-century German horticulturist.[2]
In late spring the flowers emerge before the leaves, with rounded cymes of numerous five-petalled white to bright pink flowers (measuring up to 1.5 cm across each) borne on flower stems up to 2m long. The leaves, up to Template:Cvt long and wide,[3] are peltate, rounded, deeply lobed, coarsely toothed, conspicuously veined and dark green, also on stems petioles up to Template:Cvt height. The leaves turn red in autumn.
In gardens, Darmera peltata flourishes in pond margins and bog gardens, where it forms an imposing umbrella-like clump. It is suited to smaller gardens where there is no room for Gunnera manicata or Gunnera tinctoria, distantly related plants that are somewhat similar in appearance, but much larger.
Darmera peltata has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[4][5]
-
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
-
El Dorado National Forest, CaliforniaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
_on_McCloud_River.jpg){kind=link}
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Brickell, Christopher, 1996, The Royal Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants London: RHS/Dorling Kindersley Template:ISBN