Persicaria virginiana 'Lance Corporal'

#foliagefriday #shadelover

Even if this does prove to be a foreign invasive, I have to say I love it #foliagefriday

Lovely

A clearer shot of the funny little string of red flowers #midwesternnative #shadelover

Cockeyed photo showing the funny little red flowers #foliagefriday

These always emerge just as I am getting genuinely worried that they didn't survive the winter... #interestingfoliage #shadelover #midwesternnative

Leafing out nicely... #interestingfoliage #foliagefriday #midwesternnative

A good-sized tuft that wasn't visible a week ago #midwesternnative

At last! #midwesternnative

After all my hand-wringing, one of these emerged yesterday at last. This is the 3rd one to come up #midwesternnative #interestingfoliage #shadelover

Never seen this before. The marking on the foliage is beautiful

That's exactly what attracted me to it, @alan1111 -- saw it in a client's yard and surreptitiously took a photo. GrowIt users ID'd it for me and I found live plants on Etsy

Nice find Eileen love when that happens 😁

Just think, a few weeks ago these were blooming cheerfully all over the flowerbed. I wonder how many new baby Lance Corporals I'll have when the snow melts? #midwesternnative #interestingfoliage

Oh i have a persicaria virginiana too, didn’t realise it would self seed easily, I’ve probably been weeding out the seedlings by mistake!

@richard.spicer.7906 ask @DelbertYoung ! He has a zillion of them. Another common name for these is "jumpseed" because they do just that lol

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Still putting out funny little strings of red flowers as we get closer to the day the snow flies... #midwesternnative

Recovering now from its nasty shock, but I am on a mission tomorrow to upgrade its soil.

Blooming!!! #midwesternnative

Pretty foliage💚

Fantastic 👍

This is what extreme transplant shock looks like! I popped this out of the ground, draped it across the soil of a potted plant that was going in next to it, and promptly forgot all about it for almost an hour as it gasped for water in the hot sun. This is a damp-loving shade plant. It is still catching its breath hours after I reset it in its new home... #midwesternnative #swamptastic

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I finally moved one of these out behind the Plains of Leng. But looking at this photo....are those flower stems!? @DelbertYoung what do you think? You've grown these before and I haven't... #midwesternnative #interestingfoliage

I have a wild version of Knotweed and it takes over. Yours looks like a cultivated form. It’s lovely.

Gee, it was just called Lance Corporal, P. virginiana. Could you spare us a photo of yours @DelbertYoung so we can see the difference? I was sure this was the plain wild kind...

Maybe yours looks nice because it’s wet. I can’t post a photo right now because I’m working down in Canonsburg, PA. I won’t be home for a month or so.

Well, no rush @DelbertYoung LOL

So happy with the way these are thriving on #foliagefriday #midwesternnative

Plucky little guy putting out new leaves despite getting rather too much sun. His brothers will find homes out behind the Plains of Leng where they should get about a half-day of sun. #interestingfoliage #midwesternnative

Temporary home. I thought I ordered 3 plants but the Etsy seller sent me half a dozen! Good, good times. #midwesternnative #interestingfoliage

Woohoo👍the more the merrier💚

First look at the new arrivals #midwesternnative

Nice foliage 💚🤎

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