Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock well-mannered groundcover for shade

well-mannered groundcover for shade

William Bartram

or a place where structure and foliage matter more than fleeting bloom

an aromatic evergreen of the star-anise family

Additional photos courtesy of Stephanie Brundage

Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock well-mannered groundcover for shadeSome plants arrive with a pedigree, and some arrive with a person. This one came to us from Ken Wurdack, a botanist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and his work centers on the systematics and evolution of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. He's the sort of botanist who describes entirely new genera in the tribe Hippomaneae, which happens to be the exact tribe Sebastiania sits in. So this is a spurge handed over by a man who