You ' re right , they don ' t transplant well . These plants are connected in a colony by long thin rhizomes , and most of the plants in the group don ' t have their own roots . They just grow from the rhizome and the few with roots share resources . So to successfully transplant one you have to either get lucky and find one with roots or REALLY baby it and hope it can grow some before it dies . I used to want these in my yard , and tried several times to collect some without any luck . Now I just enjoy seeing them in the woods where they grow naturally . <| sep |> You and I got the whole world talkin King Kunta . <| sep |> tbh i think schalke belong in the second tier but since the main point about this is the Hamburg joke im not gonna complain D