Sabal minor Welfare Diphylleia When the plants are young

When the plants are young

you'd never recognize it

Erythronium umbilicatum is a southeast US (West Virginia south to Florida) native spring ephemeral that's prized by gardeners as a woodland wildflower

for its normal life cycle is to produce fresh foliage in early fall which will sale through winter unfazed by cold weather

Do not cover the winter rosettes with mulch

Sabal minor Welfare Diphylleia When the plants are youngSabal minor 'Welfare' is from a very interesting population of sabals growing in the Kendall County, Texas ghost town of Welfare. These poor scrub palms are growing in mostly open grassland, with many trunked specimens reaching 8' in height. It's possible these are another remnant population of hybrids between Sabal minor and Sabal mexicana, but who knows. Thanks to Texas plantsman Steve Lowe for sharing seed so we could make these oddities available.