Looking amazing in the JLBG garden now, is a US National Arboretum accession of the evergreen, Reineckea carnea NA40046J. For those who don’t know the genus, it’s a poorer sister genus to Liriope and Ophiopogon. This exceptional clone makes dense, circular mat, compared to the more typical rangy, spreading habit. This clone was brought to the US by the USNA, from Japan’s Aritake Arboretum in 1976. I think we’re going to need a cultivar name for this one….perhaps, Reineckia carnea ‘Crop Circle’.
