Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers where the plant scrambles along

where the plant scrambles along roadsides and clearings in a haze of nectar and butterflies

from a plant found in northern Georgia

jointed branch structure the year round

a little larger in flower and reliably free-blooming

Baptisia also feeds the soil

Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers where the plant scrambles alongLeatherleaf 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,