Actea simplex
formerly Cimicifuga simplex (C. foetida intermedia)
Kamchatka Bugbane
4-8
Russia
Erect plant with several arching wands with white flowers arranged in a bottlebrush fashion.
3-4 feet tall by 2-3 feet wide
The white bottlebrush-like flowers are arranged in a terminal raceme. There is usually only one raceme per stem but there may be one or two subsidiary racemes that branch from below. The flower branches are more arching than those of Cimicifuga racemosa.
Late summer to mid-fall.
Leaves are ternately compound. Leaflets are ovate or oblong, irregularly toothed, 1˝-3 inches long.
 
 
 
 
Sometimes listed as C. foetida var. intermedia

 

 
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