Location: Cottage Garden Design

Names:

• Common Name:Frostweed
• Botanical Name: Verbesina virginica L.
• AKA: Frostweed, White Crownbeard, Iceplant, Iceweed, Virginia Crownbeard, Indian Tobacco, Richweed, Squawweed

Description: This easy-to-grow Verbesina lends stately, dark green leaves and white, autumn flowers to the dappled shade found at the edges of woodlands, where it can form sizable colonies with its spreading rhizomes. Each stem has soft, fleshy green flanges running longitudinally down its length. When winter weather brings ice, the stems exude water that freezes into fascinating shapes, hence its common name Frostweed. This plant is best suited for naturalizing rather than formal landscapes.

Best Growing Conditions: Part shade or shade; Low to medium Water Demand; Dry or Moist Soil;

Landscape Use: Good as understory in landscape restorations within its range. Also useful as a transitional plant between manicured and wild areas.

Wildlife Value: Bees, Butterflies