Rhynchospora colorata Dryopteris Our Dicentra scandens is a

Our Dicentra scandens is a virtual flowering machine

or in a bog

threadlike tip

The symmetrical 20" wide clumps are topped with lavender flowers on 18" scapes in early summer

Rhynchospora colorata Dryopteris Our Dicentra scandens is a(syn: Dichromena colorata) From the savannah and marsh regions of coastal Virginia through Florida comes this truly bizarre member of the sedge family. The slowly spreading patches (3' wide in 2 years) of Rhynchospora colorata are composed of sedge like foliage until mid May (NC), when the 15" stalks are topped with spectacular white bracts (modified leaves) that surround the tiny flowers. While rhynchospora will prosper in all but the driest of