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‘Red Dragon’ is a cultivar that typically grows to 30” tall and to 36” wide. In comparison to species’ plants, it is distinguished by having (a) red stems, (b) leaves which emerge purple-brown with a gray-brown to mint green chevron in spring, with the leaves turning silver-purple and finally green with maturity, and (c) a clump-forming rather than stoloniferous habit. ‘Red Dragon’ was discovered as a naturally occurring mutant seedling that appeared in a crop of Persicaria microcephela being grown for medicinal purposes in Nanjing, China
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Best grown in moist, moderately fertile, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Soils should be kept evenly moist. Species plants will spread in the garden by stolons.
‘Red Dragon’ is a clump-forming sterile cultivar which lacks the spreading stoloniferous characteristics of species’ plants.
