Unknown plant for shade

[Lvandelft]

On Friday I visited a wholesale perennial nursery and I saw this plant.
I was generously allowed to take a plant for my garden, but now I would like to know what it is.
It's undoubtedly a plant for the shade and has very nice shining Asarum like leaves and long stems of ca. 40 cm. with little white flowers, a bit like a perennial Clematis.
Here are some pictures:

     

[Gerdk]

Luit,
This is either Beesia calthifolia (more probably) or Beesia deltophylla - Ranunculaceae. It comes from China and might be related to Cimicifuga.
B. calthifolia is an easy growing hardy plant in my garden.

Gerd

[johnw]

Luit - I noticed that Brigg's Nursery has Beesia in tissue culture now. Glad to hear it is hardy for you Gerd, I was a bit wary.


johnw

[Paul T]

I second the Beesia ID.  I have a plant pretty much identical to the one in your picture.

[Gerdk]

Glad to hear it is hardy for you Gerd, I was a bit wary.
johnw

John,
Hardy in USDA 7 b - your wariness might be advisable - the foliage is evergreen!

Gerd

[arisaema]

It proved hardy here with some leaf burn in z7a, we had -20C with no snow cover this winter The related Asteropyrum cavalerei also survived, but lost all it's leaves.

[Lvandelft]

Again, this Forum is great 
Showing a never seen plant and within 32 minutes the answer is there and within a few hours reactions from Germany to Norway and from Nova Scotia to Australia.
Thank you so much for the reactions! Now I will find the right place to plant it and hopefully can propagate it, because I think a group of 10 - 15 plants in a shady spot must look great.

[Maggi Young]

It looks like good seed pods are already forming, Luit, so propagation should not be too hard...... if there is seed in them........

[Lvandelft]

It looks like good seed pods are already forming, Luit, so propagation should not be too hard...... if there is seed in them........

Just to mention "hawkeyes" 

Yes Maggi, I saw many seedpods, but I will have to pick them everyday in the green because they burst open very fast.

[Maggi Young]

 

Funny pods for a ranunculaceae though, eh? Look very leguminous to  me   If I had only seen the pods I would not have guessed ranunculaceae. 

[Diane Whitehead]

Mine keeps flowering throughout the summer so I pick seedpods
every week.  I just discovered a vial of seeds picked last year
that I forgot to send to the exchange.

[Lvandelft]

Diane, do you pick them green? I noticed that when the pods open, the (very) tiny seeds are gone.

[Diane Whitehead]

I haven't made any special effort to collect the seeds -
picking green, bagging, putting a pot of soil underneath, etc.

The seeds aren't really tiny.  If you put four together ==
they are a wee bit bigger than a flax seed (the kind you eat).

Maybe your pods didn't have any seeds in them.  Mine are
not ripe yet.  I usually start picking them in July.

[Lvandelft]

Maybe your pods didn't have any seeds in them

My  plant came out of a tunnel, so there will be no good seeds in it at the moment.
Now the plant is outside where the bees will hopefully like it