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A vigorous species from woodlands in China and Japan. When it is grown in gardens it is almost entirely overlooked. The small pink flowers appear
in late summer and autumn. Sometimes described as a pink lily of the valley, which is entirely misleading. The Tropical Britain website says: "Reineckia carnea, Chinese Lucky Grass is a charming woodland evergreen perennial, a broad-leaved grass-like member of the Nolinoideae that steadily creeps by stolons to form a lush clump of apple-green pleated foliage. The basal stems are an attractive contrasting pinkish-purple. In early-to-mid-autumn, robust maroon-purple flower spikes appear at ground level, the buds opening to reveal pale-pinkish white starry flowers. The spike-like inflorescence resembles that of an elegant slender hyacinth in miniature. Purplish berries follow and persist throughout the winter. The Flora of China gives its distribution as: "Dense forests, shady and moist slopes, hillsides along valleys; 100--3200 m. Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan]. |
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