Shade Gardening: Last Hurrah, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
I was out in my woods yesterday doing some cleaning up, coiling up hoses, doing a post-mortem on the past gardening season. It was refreshing to see a couple stalwarts still kicking out blooms.
#1 is a Japanese woodland perennial called rabdosia. Starts blooming late fall.
Not super spectacular from a distance, but when nothing else is blooming, it's nice.
#2 is aconitum, a reliably showy late fall bloom.
#3 is another odd Japanese woodlander, leucosceptrum stellipilum.
A more common related species is leucosceptrum japonicum, but I find it too rambunctious.
L. stellipilum is more well-behaved.
#4 is yet another Japanese woodland plant called collinsonia (formerly keiskeia).
Easy late blooming woodland perennial. Won't knock your socks off, but anything is nice this time of year.