Re: Dry shade perennials/shrubs

In a message dated 02/27/2000 10:16:14 AM Central Standard Time, 
LONDE@aol.com writes:

<< tell apart from Solomon's Seal (Pologonatum).  I have always relied on the 
 variegation for help in identification. >>
  I might be able to help in your seperation of the two plants whyen they are 
not in bloom or when they are small plants.

Pologonatum has no hairs it is what Botanists would call glabrous.

Smilacian has hairs, you can feel them on the leaves by stroking your hand 
down the leaf, or even a better way is the rub the leaves against the upper 
lip just under your nose.

I have starred at enough plants that I can tell the diffrent without much 
thought, But they did give me problems a few years back.

Speeking of Smilacina, a number of years ago I can across a Smilacina 
racemosa that was in a large field (100 acers) It had been bull-dosed of all 
the trees and was now a large grassland with a few goldenrod's here and there.

This particuler False Soloman Seal had its leaves folded up like it was in 
prayer, the leaves and stems were extremly rough hairy. My guess is that it 
had lived in this field for five years or more in full sun without any shade 
at all.  It was on a hill so the soil could not have stayed moist for most of 
the summer ether.
 
Paul

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