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Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple, Hog apple, Mandrake Z 4-9
Nodding, waxy, 6-9-petaled, white cup-shaped flowers with yellow stamens, bloom in spring. Flowers shaded by umbrella-like leaves. Ephemeral, dies back in summer....
Nodding, waxy, 6-9-petaled, white cup-shaped flowers with yellow stamens, bloom in spring. Flowers shaded by umbrella-like leaves. Ephemeral, dies back in summer.
Size: 18" x 4' spreading by rhizomes
Care: moist well-drained soil in full to part shade; drought tolerant
Native: Quebec to Minnesota, south to Florida & Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts bumblebees. Walnut tolerant, resistant to deer and rabbits.Named by botanists for its supposed resemblance to a duck’s foot (Anapodophyllum.) Its common name from the small green, apple-shaped seed pod that emerges in May, after flowering. Although its roots, seeds, and leaves are poisonous, Mayapple root used medicinally by Native Americans – for the Iroquois & Delaware as a laxative and purgative, to purify the body and expel worms. Cherokee and Menomonee made the root’s juice into insecticide to protect corn and potatoes from insects. Oneidas made a poltice for sores – cut every joint of root & bake half a day until brown then add water. Roots also used by Native Americans and early settlers as a purgative, emetic, “liver cleanser,” worm expellant, and to remedy jaundice, constipation, hepatitis, fever, and syphilis. Introduced 1664. You can hunt Morel mushrooms when Mayapples bloom.
Common Names of Plants
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Darmera peltatum syn. Peltiphyllum peltatum Umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb Z 5-8
Grow this for its pink umbellifer flowers in early spring or its gigantic, round with ruffled edged foliage dramatic in green in summer but magnificent turning red in fall
Grow this for its pink umbellifer flowers in early spring or its gigantic, round with ruffled edged foliage dramatic in green in summer but magnificent turning red in fall
Size: 3-4’ x 3’
Care: shade to sun in wet soil
Native: Oregon & California
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritCollected before 1849. Karok natives (NW corner of California) ate young shoots and Miwok tribal members, (N. central California), mixed crushed root with acorn meal to make it white.