Thank you for buying a native plant from Windflower Native Plant Nursery. Your purchase helps create a bit of Montana natural history in your own yard as well as restore a piece of native Montana. This plant was grown by seed collected in an ethical manner.    

Alumroot
Heuchera cylindrica
Saxifrage Family

Color: creamy-white
Plant height: 6”-18”
Bloom time: early to mid-summer
Native habitat: cliffs or talus where it is shaded at least part of the day, also in an open forest.

This plant loves to be on the dry side and it prefers a bit of shade, a tough combination to find in many plants. A bit of a slow grower, this little plant has beautiful, round, dark green leaves with cup-shaped to tubular flowers on long delicate stalks.

Alumroot is an important medicinal species for North American native people and herbalists. The root was reportedly used to treat cancer in the 18th century due to its strong astringent (like alum) qualities. Pounded and dried root was used in poultices on cuts and sores to stop bleeding and assist in healing. Liver disorders and sore throats were treated with a root infusion.

Today many crafts people use it to fix dyes.   

The plant is named for a German professor of medicine, J.H. Heuchera (1677-1747), cylindrica means long, round, cylindrical like its leaves.

Windflower Native Plant Nursery
PO Box 306
West Glacier, MT 59936
1.406.387.5527
www.windflowernativeplants.com