The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Polygonatum pubescens
Also called Downy Solomon's Seal
Hairy Solomon's seal is a woodland perennial that grows from rhizomes and does best in cool, shaded forest conditions with moist, humus-rich soil. It is a forest gap specialist, so it prefers dappled light and steady moisture rather than full sun or dry ground.
Polygonatum pubescens, the hairy Solomon's seal or downy Solomon's seal, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the north-central and eastern US and eastern Canada. It is a forest gap specialist.
Smooth Solomon's seal · Dwarf solomon's seal · Garden Solomon's Seal · Solomon's seal · Angular Solomon's Seal · Whorled Solomon's-seal · Solomon's Seal
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polygonatum pubescens 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.
