The maroon spring foliage color fades toward green as the season progresses. This plant is grown for its foliage---the flowers are tiny a...Read Morend ornamentally insignificant.
Self-sows to weedy proportions. Difficult to deadhead consistently. Here on the east coast and in the Pacific northwest, it can become an uncontrollable weed. It's too soon to know for certain, but its increase is so alarming that many people consider it not just weedy but probably invasive of natural areas.
Introduced to North American horticulture in 1997. This was heavily promoted in the fine gardening press, till many gardeners learned from hard experience what a weed it can become.
This is a very aggressive weed for me - I have planted it some years ago and now I am trying to get rid of every last one - they will gro...Read Morew both sun and woodland shade but strongly prefer partial shade. They germinate strongly from seeds, overwhelm low growing plants. Flowers is insignificant and this species is grown mainly for its maroon foliages.
I consider this a noxious weed and I strongly cautious against planting it close to woodland that have native wildflowers.
The maroon spring foliage color fades toward green as the season progresses. This plant is grown for its foliage---the flowers are tiny a...Read More
Nice dark foliage, but hard to see those flowers to keep deadheaded. Really seeds aggressively.
This is a very aggressive weed for me - I have planted it some years ago and now I am trying to get rid of every last one - they will gro...Read More