The bold, spiny leaves immediately catch your eye. The striking features of this perennial are enhanced by stiff flower spikes bearing hooded gray-purple flowers that rise above the dramatic foliage.
Flower spikes are quite long-lasting and real showstoppers in the garden.
In bloom, its intricate beauty will stop you in your tracks. These superb perennials are unbeatable for their brilliant flowers and for the ease with which they can be grown. On top of that, they bloom for three or four months continuously. The 5-fingered palmate leaves are like tiny umbrellas, and developing seed pods are very curious. Red buckeye becomes a small tree of 10-15' and prefers dappled shade such as that found at the woodland's edge.