Lycoris rosea Red Sunset Gaillardia Snow Fairy Bluebeard is pollinated

Snow Fairy Bluebeard is pollinated by an array of butterflies

backed by three twisted yellow sepals

sweet gum-shaped leaves of rich green are surrounded by a wide creamy white border and held along the semi-upright free-form (nursery lingo for not straight) growing stems

(syn: Arisaema urashima) Each 15" tall

Lycoris rosea Red Sunset Gaillardia Snow Fairy Bluebeard is pollinatedLycoris x rosea 'Red Sunset' is a Phil Adams cross of Lycoris sprengeri 'Hayward' x Lycoris radiata that was subsequently backcrossed again with Lycoris radiata. Lycoris 'Red Sunset' produces a 2' tall bronze stalk, topped with spidery petaled, rosy red flowers, lightly tipped in dark blue. For us, the flower stalks arise from bare ground, starting in early August (NC). After flowering, the narrow, liriope like foliage emerges in fall and persists