Aaron's Beard

Aaron's Beard, a popular name for a number of cultivated plants: (1) Saxifraga sarmentosa (nat. ord. Saxifragaceæ), an easily cultivated cottage-plant, usually grown in hanging pots, from which the long stems or runners droop down, bearing at intervals clumps of roundish, hairy, somewhat decorative leaves. The flowers have a close resemblance to those of London Pride; (2) Hypericum calycinum, also called Rose of Sharon (Hypericaceæ). It is a native of the S.E. of Europe, has a prostrate, creeping, shrubby habit, and bears (from July to September) very large bright-yellow flowers, 3 to 4 inches in diameter; (3) Geropogon hirsutus (Compositæ), a South European annual of easy culture, related to Tragopogon (Goat's Beard), bearing purplish capitula.