Vol. 43

Title:
New and Outstanding Plants

Authors:
Wilbur L. Bluhm, Tamara Buchanan, J. Michael Evans, Roger Gossier, Judith Jones, James F. McConnell, Fred D. Rauch, Warren G. Roberts, Chris Santana, Barbara Selemon and Arthur Lee Jacobson

pp: 228-239

Abstract:
Northern inside-out flower, Vancouveria hexandra (Hook.) Morren & Decne., a Pacific Northwest native, is an attractive, reluctantly deciduous, herbaceous, groundcover for shade and semi-shade sites along the Pacific coast. It grows naturally in coniferous woods west of the Cascade Mountains.

Its common name, inside-out-flower, comes from exposure of the ½-inch long stamens and pistil by the sharply reflexed sepals and petals. The sepals and petals are both white, but the petaloid sepals are the larger and showier of the two. The nodding flowers, in open panicles above the foliage, are each about a half-nch wide.

The foliage, however, is the quality making this plant a useful landscape subject. Some people say it's airy, or fern-like. Compound leaves stand up to a foot high on wiry stems which emanate from ground level. Individual leaflets are up to 2 ½ in. long and nearly as wide, often ovate in shape overall. The leaflets are quite unique, having three rather indistinct lobes with shallow

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