Hi Mary Sue and All: My problem with Scoliopus is getting it past the one and two year seedling stage. It is besieged by slugs and snails, and moss and liverworts choke the seedlings out. Does anyone have a magic formula for keeping moss and liverworts out of seedling pots? It's true that I haven't had much time to pay attention to my batches of seedlings in the past two years, and I will certainly be trying again. In the forests locally where Clintonia andrewsiana and Scoliopus bigelovii are fairly common, you rarely see any slug or snail damage to the leaves even though slugs especially are abundant (and VERY large - six inches at least). Deer seem to nibble on Scoliopus leaves and possibly the flowers and seed pods, but not that much. Diana