Eupatorium greggii Caucasus Mountains boasting a solitary leaf with

boasting a solitary leaf with 7-13 leaflets that sits atop a 15" tall green petiole (stalk)

that tops out in late spring with 4' tall spikes of pendent orange red flowers

the old seed stalks turn upward

The flowers that top the stalk are the typical rosy-purple

Arisaema engleri from 4000' elevation in the Hubei Province of China is a rarely offered cobra lily that's often confused in the trade with the Japanese Arisaema sazensoo

Eupatorium greggii Caucasus Mountains boasting a solitary leaf with(aka: Conoclinium greggii) Eupatorium greggii is an amazing, heat loving Southwest US native (Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) that should be grown in every garden from Zone 7 south and in containers from Zone 7 north. Resembling a rhizomatous perennial ageratum, Eupatorium greggii begins to flower in July and continues into December. The 2' tall, spreading patch (3' wide in 3 years) of cut leaf light green foliage is literally smothered in fall with