Grass of Parnassus

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Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia) - Pretty perennials for the bog garden. In our moist heaths and bogs Parnassia palustris is frequent, and a very pretty plant it is—handsome enough to cultivate in moist spots, where it will grow as in its native haunts. Three other kinds, natives of N. America, are quite as showy. P. fimbriata has large flowers with peculiar fringe-like appendages, its kidney-shaped leaves resembling those of P. asarifolia, another hardy species, about 9 inches high, which bears similar white flowers without fringes. P. caroliniana differs from P. asarifolia in having oval or heart-shaped leaves; it flowers about the same time, usually from the beginning of July till the end of August. These hardy Parnassias thrive best in a moist peaty soil or a spongy bog. Seed, division. Saxifrage order.


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