Dalea aurea syn Parosela aurea Golden prairie clover Z 5-9

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• Allium cernuum Nodding onion, Prairie onion Z 4-8

  Umbels of arching stems with nodding bells of lilac shading to pink or occasionally white.  May to June.

  

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  Umbels of arching stems with nodding bells of lilac shading to pink or occasionally white.  May to June.

  We are very sorry, but due to state agricultural restrictions, we are not permitted to ship Allium bulbs to Idaho, or to the following five counties in the State of Washington: Adams, Benton, Franklin, Grant and Klickitat.

  Size: 12”-18”x 3-6”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Canada to Mexico
  Wildlife Value: nectar source for Hairstreak butterfly, Attracts hummingbirds. Alliums resist critters including deer, rabbits, squirrels, mice, and moles and voles. They cannot stand the onion-like smell of Alliums protecting near-by plants too.

  Cernuum is Latin meaning “nodding.”  Many groups of 1^st Americans ate the bulbs raw, roasted or dried for winter storage or as flavoring for soups and gravies. Cherokee used this plant medicinally to cure colds, hives, colic, “gravel & dropsy,” liver ailments, sore throats, “phthisic,” and feet in “nervous fever.”  Those in the Isleta Pueblo were not quite as creative as the Cherokee and used this only for sore throats and infections.  Meriwether Lewis collected this in Montana and wrote, “I met with great quantities of a small onion about the size of a musquit ball … They were crisp, white and well-flavoured.   I gathered about a half a bushel of them before the crew arrivd.”  Chicago is believed to be named for the Algonquin word for this plant chigagou.

• Carex grayi Gray’s Sedge Z 3-8

  Cool club-like maces at the ends of stems- June to October

  

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  Cool club-like maces at the ends of stems- June to October

  Size: 30" x 24"
  Care: Full sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
  Native: Vermont west to Wisconsin, south to Georgia and Missouri
  Awards: Great Plants for Great Plains

  1^st described in Vol VII of Transactions of Linnaean Society c. 1798. Botanists named and renamed it finally settling on Carex grayi to honor botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888).

• Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparium Little bluestem Z 3-9

  Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall.

  

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  Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall

  Size: 18" x 12"
  Care: sun in well-drained soil.
  Native: all No. America, Wisconsin native.
  Wildlife Value: leaves are food for Skipper butterfly caterpillars and seeds food for songbirds

  Comanche used it to remedy syphilitic sores. Lakota made soft, wispy seedheads into liners for moccasins. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) in America’s prairies c. 1790

   

• Baptisia sphaerocarpa Yellow wild indigo Z 5-8

  Spikes of yellow pea-like flowers in spring cover this broad plant - really makes you say “awe” or “oooh” when it blooms. All season resembles a shrub Flowers turn into round seed pods the size of a marble.  This is a legume that improves soil fertility by making nitrogen available to the Baptisa and surrounding plants.

  

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  Spikes of yellow pea-like flowers in spring cover this broad plant – really makes you say “awe” or “oooh” when it blooms. All season resembles a shrub, flowers turn into round seed pods the size of a marble.  This is a legume that improves soil fertility by making nitrogen available to the Baptisa and surrounding plants.

  Size: 3’ x 3’
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to dry soil.
  Native: Missouri to Mississippi to TX
  Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies. Deer resistant
  Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.

  Baptisia is Greek meaning “to dye” referring to use of Baptisia australis as a substitute for indigo dye. Sphaerocarpa means “round seed.” Collected before 1834 by Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) English planthunter who scoured the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific.