Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers and for centuries the plant

and for centuries the plant was hung by doorways to guard against misfortune

from a plant found in northern Georgia

and birds strip the dark fruits in autumn and sow them about

'Snowflake' carries double flowers: each sterile floret sits layered behind another in overlapping

and underplant with ferns

Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers and for centuries the plantLeatherleaf is the quiet constant of the northern bog. Chamaedaphne calyculata, the only species in the genus, is a low, thicket forming evergreen of the heath family that ranges right around the cold northern world, from the peatlands of North America east to the bogs of Finland and Japan, and southward in this country to the pocosins and acid bogs of the coastal plain, as far as South Carolina. Across that vast range, leatherleaf forms the dense,