Dracunculus vulgaris Green Flowering Plants butterfly-shaped flowers of Hedychium coronarium

butterfly-shaped flowers of Hedychium coronarium begin to open

While bog sage is at home in a moist setting

In our rock garden

it mingles

As an attractive

Dracunculus vulgaris Green Flowering Plants butterfly-shaped flowers of Hedychium coronariumHold the phone hold your nose cover your eyes the dazzling Dracunculus vulgaris (aka: Viagra lily or dragon arum) is ready to flower. This amorphophallus cousin from the Mediterranean is equally as bizarre but much more winter hardy. After cold weather ends, the 3' stalk of Dracunculus vulgaris, clothed with pedate leaves, emerges from the giant tuber and, in late May (NC), is topped with the 18" flower. Picture a fleshy, purple, ruffled vase, from