Asplenium tutwilerae Panicum white tubular flowers in late

white tubular flowers in late April (NC)

limey-chartreuse leaves

parviflorum emerge clothed with large fuzzy leaves

heat- and drought-loving deciduous clump

These grow much faster than the typical Sabal minor

Asplenium tutwilerae Panicum white tubular flowers in lateAsplenium tutwilerae is an unusual, and very rare, naturally occurring fern from Alabama (formerly xAsplenosorus) that originated as the result of a historical conjugal visit between two native species, Asplenium platyneuron and the walking fern, Asplenium rhizophyllum. The same hybrid, published in 1865 as Asplenium ebenoides is a sterile diploid, while this hybrid, discovered in Hale County, Alabama, by botanist Julia Tutwiler in 1873, is a fertile