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A mystery flower

Do you recognize this disembodied flower, borrowing the leaves of a shuttlecock fern and an Actaea?

The answer is Darmera peltatum (aka Peltiphyllum peltatum), the splendid damp-ground saxifrage whose leaves follow its flowers on stalks that can be four feet long. ‘Peltatum’ signifies shield-shaped: the stalks support the leaves at right angles from just inside their edge.

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