This is a primitive plant that produces spores. Typically grown as a curiosity in a shade garden or as an epiphyte. Sometimes grown as a container plant.

Specimen plant, screen plant, understory tree/shrub.

Difficult to transplant. Clonal. May be used as a hedge and takes to pruning.

This is one of the few pink tickseeds. Wet garden areas. This species will persist only if conditions remain moist.

Its deeply divided leaves look somewhat like marijuana leaves(Cannabis spp.). Specimen plant in moist areas. There is also a white-flowered variant.