Perennials & Biennials
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Ranunculus repens var. pleniflorus Creeping buttercup Z 3-9
Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May - June on this short groundcover.
Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May – June on this short groundcover.
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Size: 10" x spreading
Care: part sun to shade in moist soil
Native: Europe, Siberia, from Newfoundland to VirginiaRanunculus is Latin for little frog, so named by Roman naturalist Pliny (23-79) referring to the wet conditions required by some ranunculus. In 1629 John Parkinson (1567-1650) apothecary to James I and royal botanist to Charles I, called this Ranunculus protensis flore multiplici. The root was supposed to break persistent sores by “drawing the venome to the place.” Jefferson planted Creeping buttercup at Monticello in 1782; it may or may not have been this double.
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Ratibida pinnata Prairie coneflower Z 3-8
Skirt of drooping, sunny, thin petals surround erect brown cone on this fragrant flower, smelling of anise, June-August.
Skirt of drooping, sunny, thin petals surround erect brown cone on this fragrant flower, smelling of anise, June-August.
Size: 4' x 18"
Care: sun to part shade in any soil
Native: Ontario, VT to FL, SD to OK, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Butterfly plant. Birds eat seeds.Pinnata means feathery in Latin referring to the thin petals of the flower. Native Americans cured toothaches with the root & made tea from the cone and leaves. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) on the prairies of Illinois in 1795.
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Rheum palmatum var. tanguticum Ornamental rhubarb Z 4-8
Gigantic, jagged-edge, bronze-tinted turning green foliage with pink plumes reaching skyward atop tall stalks in early summer.
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Gigantic, jagged-edge, bronze-tinted turning green foliage with pink plumes reaching skyward atop tall stalks in early summer.
Size: 8' x 6'
Care: Sun to part shade, moist well-drained fertile soil, mulch in spring
Native: valleys of Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Xizang, ChinaRhubarb carried from its native China to central Asia and then Europe by caravans more than 2000 years ago. Both Greek physician Dioscoride (40-90) s and Roman Pliny (23-79) mentioned the plant during the 1st century. In 1300’s Marco Polo explained that merchants of China do not take their beasts of burden into the mountains where rhubarb grows because “if eaten (causes) the hoofs of the animal to drop off.” This variety 1st described in 1874.
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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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Rodgersia pinnata Rodger’s flower Z 5-8
Ground-hugging mound of bold leaves arranged opposite one another along the stem (pinnate, this is why it’s called pinnata) appear to be arranged in the shape of a hand (palmate) because the leaves are so large it’s hard to see the difference. To translate, the leaves are a sight to behold featuring their big size, crinkled texture, and, dark veins. This blooms on a stalk about a foot taller than the leaves in July-August pink, sometimes white.
Ground-hugging mound of bold leaves arranged opposite one another along the stem (pinnate, this is why it’s called pinnata) appear to be arranged in the shape of a hand (palmate) because the leaves are so large it’s hard to see the difference. To translate, the leaves are a sight to behold featuring their big size, crinkled texture, and, dark veins. This blooms on a stalk about a foot taller than the leaves in July-August pink, sometimes white.
Size: 3' x 30" and slowly spreading by rhizomes
Care: shade in moist soil
Native: China
Wildlife Value: deer resistant.
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksRodgersia named for American Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882) who led an expedition in the Pacific in 1852 during which the 1st species of this genus was discovered. This species introduced from its native China by Ernest “Chinese” Wilson (1876-1930) by 1910.
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Rodgersia podophylla Bronze-leaf rodgersia In China: gui deng qing Z 5-8
Blooming, creamy white panicles in summer, atop five leaflets, shield-shaped, jagged incisions at the ends forming a palmate, open hand shape and a tint of bronze coloring.
Blooming, creamy white panicles in summer, atop five leaflets, shield-shaped, jagged incisions at the ends forming a palmate, open hand shape and a tint of bronze coloring.
Size: 3-5’ x 3-4’ and slowly spreading by rhizomes.
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil
Native: woodland & stream edges in Japan, China & Korea
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden, Great Plant Pick Award.Rodgersia named for American Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882) who led an expedition in the Pacific in 1852 during which this plant was collected. 1st mentioned in literature 1858. Named by Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Species name from the Greek for foot (podos) and leaf (phyllon).
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Rudbeckia fulgida Black eyed susan Z 4-9
The classic Black-eyed susan, 2-3" wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July-October
The classic Black-eyed susan, 2-3″ wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July – October
Size: 30" x 18"
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: East and Southeastern U.S.
Wildlife Value: A great number of bees, flies and beetles collect pollen or drink nectar from this RudbeckiaCherokee ate the stems and leaves and used this species to remedy earaches, sores, flux, venereal disease, snakebites, dropsy, and swelling. Iroquois healed the heart and rid children of worms with this, Potawatomi make a brown dye with this. This species fulgida was introduced to England in 1760 and named in William Aition’s Hortus Kewensis, V. 3 p. 251 (1789).
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Rudbeckia laciniata var. hortensia Golden Glow Z 3-9
Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913. Blooms July-August.
Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913. Blooms July-August.
Size: 5-7' x 12" and spreading
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well drained soil, drought tolerant
Wildlife Value: Immune to Walnut toxinsSerendipitous discovery in a group of seedlings in 1894. Said to be “the most popular hardy perennial introduced during the last 25 years,” April, 1905, The Garden magazine. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908. Beth in New Mexico advised that her alpaca named Ricardo finds them delicious.
