Description
Tanakaea – Tanakea – Japanese Foam Flower –
There is one, dioecious, rhizomatous evergreen perennial in this genus. It’s from wet, rocky sites in Japan. T. radicans is an attractive creeping plant, with basal leaf rosettes and upright, leafless stems that bear dense panicles of tiny white flowers in late spring and early summer. Grow in a moist, shaded site in a woodland or rock garden.
Grow in moist, humus rich, peaty soil in full or partial shade.
T. radicans – This dense, spreading perennial with basal rosettes from Japan grows 4″ tall and 12″ wide. It produces egg to oblong shaped, leathery leaves, up to 3″ long, with rounded to heart shaped bases, dark green above and paler beneath. In late spring and early summer, mainly unisexual, star shaped white flowers, to 1/8″ across, with prominent anthers, are borne in dense panicles, 2-6″ long.
Zones 6-8
