Acanthus Summer Beauty Endangered Plants Pyrrosia polydactyla doesn't run

Pyrrosia polydactyla doesn't run

where many years of temperatures to -15F have proven no problem

Starting for us in early May

and surrounding Chinese provinces

but it grows in full sun and is native to all but 8 states of the continental United States

Acanthus Summer Beauty Endangered Plants Pyrrosia polydactyla doesn't runWe feel this import by the late Oregon plantsman Chet Tompkins from a gardener in China is one of the finest acanthus on the market. Where Acanthus mollis fails miserably, Acanthus 'Summer Beauty', a hybrid (probably Acanthus mollis x Acanthus hungaricus), grows well in our hot summers. The 4 6' wide clump of giant, glossy, dark green foliage is more cutleaf than typical Acanthus mollis. In June (NC), the tropical looking, deer resistant clumps are