PlantFiles: Mountain Fleece
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail'

The Mountain Fleeceflowers are widely used in European gardens. Give this plant elbow room. Wonderful for massing in (slightly) moist areas. Flowers are excellent for cutting. These longflowering plants are easy to maintain and combine very well with grasses or in 'Dutch Wave' plantings. Plants are easily divided in early spring. While this plant is a steady spreader, it is not considered to be invasive in any way.

Mountain Fleece 'Firetail' received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (AGM)

A Japanese beetle magnet! Unless the plant is sprayed, the leaves resemble green Swiss cheese in a day or two.

Persicaria amplexicaulis syn Bistorta amplexicaulis, Polygonum amplexicaule - Bistort, Mountain Fleece
Persicaria amplexicaulis is a clump-forming, leafy, semi-evergreen perennial from the Himalayas. It has oval to heart-shaped mid-green leaves and grows to a height and spread of 4'. Its profuse spikes of small, rich red flowers are borne from summer to fall.
P amplexicaulis 'Firetail' is a low grower with vivid crimson flowers.
'Inverleith' is a dwarf cultivar with short spikes of deep crimson flowers.
Zones 5-9
Cultivation: Most species are vigorous and very frost hardy and easily cultivated in any well-drained soil in sun or part-shade; indeed, some are too vigorous and may become invasive. The stronger growers are best planted where they can be contained. Propagate from seed in spring or by division in spring or fall.