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Prosartes trachycarpa
Also called Rough Fruit Fairy Bells, Rough Fruit Mandarin, Rough Fruited Fairybells, Rough Fruited Mandarin, Wartberry Fairybells
Roughfruit fairybells is a North American woodland perennial in the lily family, grown mainly for its hanging flowers and edible but bland berries. It grows from rhizomes and does best in cool, shaded, moist woodland conditions.
Prosartes trachycarpa, the roughfruit fairybells, rough-fruited fairybells or rough-fruited mandarin, is a North American species of plants in the lily family. The species is widespread, known from British Columbia to Ontario and south to Arizona and New Mexico. One isolated population was reported from Isle Royale in Lake Superior.
The berries have historically been eaten by Blackfeet Native Americans.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prosartes trachycarpa 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.
