Alum Root, Heuchera americana, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	American Alumroot	Heuchera americana L.	Saxifrage	Upland	Early Summer
Other names and notes	This Saxifrage family plant grows in the Upland Garden along the path edges. It has a clump of basal leaves only that are roundly heart shaped. The flowers occur in branched clusters along tall hairy stems, up to 3 feet in height. Flowers are short, greenish to purplish with protruding stamens. Home gardeners will recognize these plant characteristics in the other Heuchera species known as coral bells, although in a much smaller scale. The species native to Minnesota is H. richardsonii.


This plant grows along Blazing Star Boulevard and as it looked on June 22.

Notes: Gardener Cary George reported that he had planted this species in the Garden for the first time in 1987. This species is not native to Minnesota, it's territory is normally south and east of Minnesota; the species native to Minnesota is H. richardsonii. (Richardson's Alumroot) is well distributed throughout the state.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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