I have seen this native shrub in the wild; once in northern Illinois and some groups of plants along a clean stream in southeast Pennsylv...Read Moreania; and planted at Jenkins Arboretum in se PA. It makes an interesting shrub in a naturalistic landscape with its nice compound leaves and 3-lobed papery light tan, then later, brown inflated capsules. It gets a pale yellow fall color. It has handsome smooth twigs dotted with white lenticels and the older, red-brown to gray, scaly bark has longitudinal white stripes Bears small whitish bell-like flowers in clusters in May. Easy to grow and low maintenance, very tolerant of shade. Some simple natural pruning would make it more attractive for ornamental horticulture. Native from southeast Canada into New England to southern Minnesota, down thru east Oklahoma to northern Georgia then back up the Atlantic Coast.
This was growing at the back of our lot when we moved in over 35 years ago. It transplants easily, and makes an attractive shrub: open ...Read Moreand irregular when grown at the edge of a woods; compact and regular when grown in the open. Flowers, seedpods, interesting bark and leaves provide year-round interest. Spreads by underground stems and forms thickets. I have never had an insect or disease problem with it.
I have seen this native shrub in the wild; once in northern Illinois and some groups of plants along a clean stream in southeast Pennsylv...Read More
This was growing at the back of our lot when we moved in over 35 years ago. It transplants easily, and makes an attractive shrub: open ...Read More