Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers and underplant with ferns

and underplant with ferns

Among ornamental grasses

Baptisia also feeds the soil

and often into winter where frost stays away

'Snowflake' carries double flowers: each sterile floret sits layered behind another in overlapping

Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers and underplant with fernsLeatherleaf is the quiet constant of the northern bog. Chamaedaphne calyculata, the only species in the genus, is a low, thicket forming evergreen of the heath family that ranges right around the cold northern world, from the peatlands of North America east to the bogs of Finland and Japan, and southward in this country to the pocosins and acid bogs of the coastal plain, as far as South Carolina. Across that vast range, leatherleaf forms the dense,