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Re: [SG] Cimicifuga information

In a message dated 6/21/98 10:40:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jknoble@WARWICK.NET writes:

<< Kay is the only one that took a goodly stab at botanical
 distinctions in this ramosa/simplex discussion.  The rest seem
 to have been so much opinion.  With that, I suppose everyone can
 decide it will be whatever they want it to be. >>

In a discussion on cimicifuga (Rix/Phillips Perennials, Vol. 2) quote:

        (after S. rubifolia, same paragraph) "This species has commonly been called
C.
        racemosa var. cordifolia (Pursh).  Gray in gardens and in the first printing
of this book,
        and we are indebted to James Compton for discovering Kearney's monograph and
        naming the  cultivated plants of this confused genus. He has pointed out the
the name
        Cimicifuga ramosa Nutt, should be rejected: all the plants grown under that
name
        are forms of C. simplex.

        C. 'Brunette was introduced by Blooms of Denmark.  It is one of several
purple-brown
        leafed cultivars.

I write occasionally for a newletters and check facts on all articles however
it the horticultural ( how to do it and where to get it ) info that most
people want.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
Z4
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