Trautvetteria caroliniensis var japonica Crinum Tom Mitchell collection near Hokkaido

Tom Mitchell collection near Hokkaido

white petals at the top with a pink slipper attached below

This breakthrough breeding has produced without question the shortest blue-purple flowered butterfly bush on the market

with the form and leaf of Hosta 'Big Daddy'

Trautvetteria caroliniensis var japonica Crinum Tom Mitchell collection near Hokkaido(aka: Trautvetteria japonica) Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. japonica is the Asian counterpart to our East Coast US native false bugbane. Growing in cold regions of northern Japan, this thalictrum relative is found colonizing wetland areas. The slowly stoloniferous rhizomes give rise to serrate green basal leaves, topped from early summer through fall with 2' tall stalks, ending in a corymbs of white thalictrum like frothy flowers. A well grown