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Philadelphus microphyllus syn. Philadelphus occidentalis Littleleaf mockorange, Western Mock Orange Z. 4-9
Four swan-white, undulating-edged petals on each flower circle around canary-colored stamens in early summer. Its flowers give off a strong fragrance of oranges with a hint of pineapple blooming from its multi-branch ends of these variable shrubs with yellow foliage in fall.
Four swan-white, undulating-edged petals on each flower circle around canary-colored stamens in early summer. Its flowers give off a strong fragrance of oranges with a hint of pineapple blooming from its multi-branch ends of these variable shrubs with yellow foliage in fall.
Size: 3-8’x 3-5’ big variations in size
Care: Sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: West and southwest: CA, AZ, CO, NM, TX & UTIsleta Pueblo Indians ate the berries. Sanders, The Flower Garden (1913): “Forms a dense bush, 3 ft. high …flowers in summer, a pretty kind. A native of Colorado.”
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Pimpinella major ‘Rosea’ Greater burnet, Cow parsley 5-8
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. It’s many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. Its many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Size: 3’-4’ x 2’
Care: sun to part-shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and Caucasus
Wildlife Value: Rich in both pollen and nectar it attracts bees and butterflies.First described in literature in 1812 by German botanist David Heinrich (1760-1846) in Nouvelle Flore des Environs de Paris. He named it Pimpinella rubra. Since then botanists decided it’s a cultivar of the white-flowered Pimpinellla major and renamed it.
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Polemonium brandegeei Brandegee’ Jacobs-ladder, Yellow sky pilot Z 4-8
Hanging, tubular yellow, sometimes white blooms over frilly foliage, May-July
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Hanging, tubular yellow, sometimes white blooms over frilly foliage, May-July
Size: 8” x 10”
Care: sun to part shade in very well-drained soil
Native: CO, NM, SD, UT, WY
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies & mothsCollected by Townshend Stith Brandegee in the ‘Valley of the Rio Grande, on the Los Pinos Trail’ c. 1870. Brandegee then sent it to Harvard botanist Asa Gray who identified and named it to honor its collector.
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Polystichum tsus-simense Korean Rock Fern Z 5-9
Compact, glossy green fronds with black stems growing in a rosette.
Compact, glossy green fronds with black stems growing in a rosette.
Size: 12-20” x 12-16”
Care: Shade to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Korea
Awards: Royal Horticulture Society Award of Garden Merit. Great Plant Pick Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden1st collected “on the “Island of Tsus Sima, in the Straits of Corea” by Charles Wilford in 1859. Species Filicum, Vol. 4, p. 16 (1862) William J. Hooker, In 1854 Charles Wilford started as an assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sent to Asia in 1857 he collected plants in Hong Kong, moving to Taiwan the following year and to Korea and Japan in 1859.
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Pycanthemum muticum Clustered Mountain Mint, Blunt Mountain Mint Z 4-8
Silvery bracts underlying silvery-pink pincushion flowers blooming from June to September. Flowers and leaves minty fragrance.
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Silvery bracts underlying silvery-pink pincushion flowers blooming from June to September. Flowers and leaves minty fragrance.
Size: 12-36” x 12-36” spreading.
Care: sun to part shade in moist to well-drained soil incl. drought
Native: Maine to Michigan, south and angling southwest from Illinois to Texas
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. One of highest nectar and pollen producing flowers attracting copious numbers and kinds of bees, butterflies, wasps and other insects.
Awards: Georgia Native Plant Society Plant of the Year 2022Collected and described by French botanist André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years exploring the North America for plants. 1800.
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Rodgersia aesculofolia Finger-leaf rodgersia Z 5-7
Showy, fragrant, pink-tinged, ivory flowers along stems rising up to 2’ over basal foliage. Come for the flowers and stay for the foliage - 12” wide bronze-tinted, crinkled, double-tooth edged, palmate shaped of seven leaflets radiate like spokes of a wheel.
Showy, fragrant, pink-tinged, ivory flowers along stems rising up to 2’ over basal foliage. Come for the flowers and stay for the foliage – 12” wide bronze-tinted, crinkled, double-tooth edged, palmate shaped of seven leaflets radiate like spokes of a wheel.
Size: 3-5’ x3-5’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to wet soil
Native: northern ChinaFirst collected in Sichuan province, China by Siberian Grigorii Potanin (1835-1920) in 1884. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada vol 13 p. 96 (1893). For his political activity as a Siberian separatist Potanin spent years in Russian prison. An accomplished geographer and naturalist he explored much of Kazakhstan and Mongolia and parts of China. In 1879-1880 he explored northern Mongolia collecting many plants and animal specimens.
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Rudbeckia subtomentosa ‘Henry Eilers’ Z 4-8
These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching stems forming clumps of sun yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown dome of disc flowers. But instead of flat petals, the petals are rolled into narrow tubes, looking like many spokes of a wheel blooming from mid-summer into fall.
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These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching stems forming clumps of sun yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown dome of disc flowers. But instead of flat petals, the petals are rolled into narrow tubes, looking like many spokes of a wheel blooming from mid-summer into fall.
Size: 3-5’ x 1-2’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, deer resistantHenry Eilers discovered this cultivar while scouting a southern Illinois prairie. Here’s his story.
Henry Eilers, born in 1934, long-time nurseryman, had introduced selections of different ornamental plants that he found growing at his nursery. But Rudbeckia subtomentosa ‘Henry Eilers’ is different. Henry worked tirelessly for decades to preserve Illinois plants and their diversity. In the early 1980’s while scouting a prairie remnant near Witt in Montgomery County IL he spied a small clump of uncommon Black-eyed susan. Instead of the usual broad, flat petals, this one has narrow, quilled petals. He dug it and replanted it at his nursery where it grew on. It still grows in his wildflower garden. He decided to name it Rudbeckia ‘Montgomery County.’ In the 1990’s Henry took it and other native wildflowers to a native plant sale at the Shaw Arboretum, Missouri Botanic Garden. He and another nurseryman, Larry Lowman exchanged a few plants, one being this Rudbeckia. Several years later he found it for sale in the Plant Delight’s Nursery catalog, renamed Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers.’ Over time the plant appeared in gardening magazines and mail order catalogs. It now grows in the entrance planting at the National Botanic Garden in Washington, at the Missouri Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A nurseryman from the Check Republic told Henry he had been growing it! -
Sambucus canadensis syn. Sambucus nigra var. canadensis. Elderberry, American elderberry Z 3-9
In late spring to mid-summer lavish, fragrant flat-to dome-shaped clusters of flowers bloom above this arching, multi-stemmed shrub. Late summer into fall the multitude of flowers turn into purple-black, edible fruits, up to 2000 per cluster!
In late spring to mid-summer lavish, fragrant flat-to dome-shaped clusters of flowers bloom above this arching, multi-stemmed shrub. Late summer into fall the multitude of flowers turn into purple-black, edible fruits, up to 2000 per cluster!
Size: 5-12’ x spreading quickly by suckers. Best to grow as hedge, along a roadside, fence-line or forest edge.
Care: sun to part shade in moist to well-drained soil
Native: Americas east of Rocky Mountains south to Bolivia. Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: branches and leaves make nesting sites and give cover for birds.. Many birds (including, Pheasant, Bluebird, Cedar waxwing, Cardinal, Mockingbird and others) as well as some mammals eat the sweet, but slightly bitter, fruit. It is a source of pollen for numerous bees and other insects.Collected before 1735. Native Americans made extensive use of this, Cherokee used it topically for boils, burns and infections and internally for rheumatism, fevers, dropsy, as a diuretic, and of course ate the berries. Costanoan made its hollow twigs into pipes, flutes and shafts for arrows. Several Natives infused the flowers and foliage with hot water to make steam baths. And many natives ate it, boiled it, jammed it, and added the fruit to cakes. Today people eat them in jellies, jams, pancakes, pies and wine and make homeopathic medicine from it. Reportedly ripe berries are high in vitamin C and fiber. It’s also an antioxidant.
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