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Polygonatum biflorum
Also called King Solomon's Seal, Solomon's Seal, Giant Solomon's Seal, Great Solomon's Seal, American Solomon's Seal, Small Solomon's Seal, Honey Flowered Solomon's Seal
Smooth Solomon's seal is a woodland perennial from eastern and central North America, grown for its arching leaf stems and drooping white-green flowers. It does best in shade with rich, moist, humus-rich soil.
Polygonatum biflorum (smooth Solomon's-seal, great Solomon's-seal, Solomon's seal) is an herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern and central North America. The plant is said to possess scars on the rhizome that resemble the ancient Hebrew seal of King Solomon. It is often confused with Maianthemum racemosum (called "Solomon's plume" or "false Solomon's seal"), which has upright flowers.
Historically, the Native Americans consumed the starch-rich rhizomes of smooth Solomon's-seal as a "potato-like food" used to make breads and soups. The young shoots are also edible, raw or boiled for an asparagus-like food. Smooth Solomon's-seal was also used in herbal medicine. For example, the rhizome was used in making a tonic for gout and rheumatism. Smooth Solomon's-seal has had nearly a dozen uses in herbal medicine including as an anti-inflammatory, sedative, and tonic. Smooth Solomon's-seal is not used in large-scale agriculture.
Dwarf solomon's seal · Garden Solomon's Seal · Solomon's seal · Angular Solomon's Seal · Hairy Solomon's seal · Whorled Solomon's-seal · Solomon's Seal
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polygonatum biflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
