Blephilia ciliata Athyrium assuming you provide moist woodland

assuming you provide moist woodland conditions like it enjoys in the wilds of Sichuan

When the plants mature and finally engage in sexual activities

In good growing conditions

the tight clusters of stems emerge from winter-dormant

with sparse terminal clusters of pendant creamy flowers in late spring

Blephilia ciliata Athyrium assuming you provide moist woodlandBlephilia ciliata is a little known clumping mint cousin, native from Vermont south to Georgia and west to Texas, where it occurs in open woods and meadows. In form, Blephilia ciliata is a woodland version of bee balm without the pesky spreading tendency. Downy wood mint forms a 1. 5' tall x 1. 5' wide clump of upright hairy stems, topped, starting for us in mid May with whorls of lavender flowers. Like its cousin, bee balm, Blephilia ciliata is a