Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock and the plant finishes the

and the plant finishes the year in excellent burgundy-red fall color

and deer pass them by

and particular about water: acidic soil

sending up tall

Sarcandra glabra 26/3 Restock and the plant finishes theThis plant is a botanical time machine. Sarcandra glabra belongs to the Chloranthaceae, a flowering plant family with only four surviving genera worldwide and a fossil record reaching back into the Early Cretaceous, more than a hundred million years ago. Pollen and floral fossils of the Chloranthaceae are among the earliest evidence of flowering plants anywhere on Earth, and the family was already abundant when the dinosaurs were only in their middle