Accession Data
Beesia deltophylla
Family: Ranunculaceae
Country of Origin: China
Description: Very nice small, evergreen groundcover from China with shiny, heart-shaped leaves and spikes of white flowers in late summer. Lovely vein patterns add texture to the leathery foliage.2
Rhizome ca. 4 mm in diam. Scapes more than 14 cm, to 34 cm at fruiting, 1--2 mm in diam., basally subglabrous, apically spreading white pubescent. Basal leaves 2 or 3, long petiolate; petiole 5.5--14.5 cm, densely spreading white pubescent; leaf blade ovate-triangular, 4--9 × 2.8--5.9 cm, abaxially pale green, glabrous, adaxially green, base deeply cordate, margin sparsely 7--16-dentate on each side, teeth 3--8 mm wide at base, apex acuminate to long acuminate. Inflorescence paniculate-cymose; bracts subulate, 1--4 mm. Flowers 6--7 mm in diam.; pedicel 5--10 mm, densely spreading pubescent. Sepals white, ovate-elliptic, 4--4.5 × 2--2.5 mm, glabrous, apex acute. Stamens shorter than sepals; anthers yellowish. Follicle yellowish brown, ca. 1 cm, flat, lanceolate-linear, sparsely pubescent, with ca. 4 obliquely transverse veins. Seeds several, ca. 2 mm, obliquely corrugate. Fl. Jul, fr. Jul--Sep.3
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 6
Accession #: 201400193
Accession Date: 2014-10-02 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2301
Quantity: 1
Source: Cistus Nursery
Culture: Plants form clumps 18" wide x 1 ft tall in dappled shade to full shade. Tolerant of many soils but best planted in areas that are consistently moist and well-drained soil. Creates a good backdrop for other shade loving perennials. Frost hardy to -10F, USDA zone 6.2
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
SubFamily: Ranunculoideae
Tribe: Cimicifugeae
Flowering Data:
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References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 17 September 2014.
- Cistus Nursery online catalog. Accessed 6 October 2014.
- Flora of China. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
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