Paris Polyphylla Could Be the Most Unique Flower in Your Garden

Every time I flip through the Wayside Gardens Fall catalog (and I flip through it a lot, as I’m sure you can imagine), I’m stopped by the photo on page 13 of the Paris polyphylla flower.  With it’s unusual leaf-like green petals arrayed symmetrically around ruby red stigma and long yellow anthers, it really is an arresting site.  It’s not just unusual in our catalog, either.  Because this plant is very difficult to propagate (though remarkably easy to grow once you have a plant sprouted), it is a very rare plant.  Rare enough, in fact, that I know of no common name.  This rare little part-shade plant comes to us from the woodlands of Asia and is in the same family as Trillium.