Diphylleia grayi 5b Ipheion 'Rolf Fiedler' is great

Ipheion 'Rolf Fiedler' is great when used with gold foliage or golden flowered bulbs in early spring

but with a whip-like tongue that extends from the mouth of the flower upwards to 12" or more

when the urge to procreate just becomes too overwhelming

The narrow foliage is vertically striped white

The light blue flowers

Diphylleia grayi 5b Ipheion 'Rolf Fiedler' is greatDiphylleia grayi is a little known mayapple and fairy wing relative, native to moist wooded mountainsides in colder regions of China and Japan. Diphylleia grayi forms clumps of large, fuzzy, green, umbrella like, bold foliage topped by small clusters of white, mayapple like flowers in late spring. When it rains on the flowers they magically turn translucent then return to white as they dry. In late summer, the stalks of eye catching cobalt blue fruit