We love any late season flowering woodland perennials, and few are more impressive than our native Actaea cordifolia. This wonderful rare native (globally rare ranking of G3) from Virginia west to Tennessee has languished in taxonomic purgatory under a parade of invalid names. The 4′ tall, upright, branched terminal spikes end in finger-like clusters of small white flowers that top the plant in September. Although Actaea cordifolia prefers alkaline soils, it has grown well in our slightly acid amended woodland soil.
