Trachycarpus wagnerianus Gene Cline Mexican Catchfly is a low

Mexican Catchfly is a low herbaceous perennial with spathulate leaves and showy red-orange starry flowers on stems held well above the foliage

five-petaled flowers open in the leaf axils all along the branches

developed by Eliza Lucas Pinckney around Charleston and made with skill drawn largely from enslaved West Africans

is the reward

Trachycarpus wagnerianus Gene Cline Mexican Catchfly is a lowWagner's Windmill Palm is known only in cultivation and apparently came from Japan. It is considered by some to be a variety of the common Windmill Palm (T. fortunei). It is about equally hardy and requires the same conditions. It is distinctive and distinguished by a stiffer appearance and smaller leaves. The Southeastern Palm Society's book Hardy Palms for the Southeast says: "The primary horticultural feature of Trachycarpus wagnerianus is its