Perennials & Biennials

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• Scabiosa ochroleuca Cream pincushion Z 4-9

  Looking for a non-stop bloomer?  Cream petals compacted together bloom atop tall, wiry stems from June to October

  

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  Looking for a non-stop bloomer?  Cream petals compacted together bloom atop tall, wiry stems from June to October

  Size: 18"-24" x 18"
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
  Native: Europe & Asia
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies

  The name scabiosa from Latin scabies refers to the mite infestation that this plant was supposed to cure; ochroleuca means “yellowish white.”    First described by Swiss botanist Bauhin Caspar (1560-1642) in Pinax theatri botanici in 1623.

• Scrophularia macrantha syn. Scrophularia coccinea Redbirds in a Tree, Mimbres figwort  Z 5-10

  This sub-shrub blooms from early summer until frost with white-lipped cherry-red, tubular flowers that look like a flock of inch-long, baby birds with open mouths waiting for food, each topping short stems along the branches. The margins of its oval green leaves are toothed.

  

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  This sub-shrub blooms from early summer until frost with white-lipped cherry-red, tubular flowers that look like a flock of inch-long, baby birds with open mouths waiting for food, each topping short stems along the branches. The margins of its oval green leaves are toothed.

  Size: 2-4’ x 18” 
  Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Little to no fertilizer.
  Native: Three mountain tops in southern New Mexico (high elevations make it hardy to cold regions)
  Wildlife Value: Its nectar is one of the best feeders and attractors for hummingbirds.  Pollen and nectar also attract butterflies and bees.
  Awards: 2008 Plant Select Winner

  First collected on the Mexican Boundary Expedition by Charles Wright (1811-1885) and John Bigelow (1804-1878), “at the base of a rocky ledge near the summit of a mountain . . .a truly handsome species.” Described by Asa Gray, Torrey, John ed. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey Vol. 2 p. 111 (1859)

• Scutellaria altissima Somerset skullcap Z 4-10

  In early summer masses of upright stems bearing bi-colored, bluish-purple and white, snapdragon-like flowers, the hood being bluish-purple and the lower lip white.   Flowers grow on one side of the spike. This will re-bloom if you cut the flowers.

  

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  In early summer masses of upright stems bearing bi-colored, bluish-purple and white, snapdragon-like flowers, the hood being bluish-purple and the lower lip white.   Flowers grow on one side of the spike. This will re-bloom if you cut the flowers.

  Size: 24-36” x 18-24”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
  Native: central & eastern Europe
  Wildlife Value: pollen and nectar attracts bees and butterflies

  1^st described and named in 1700 by Joseph Pitton Tournefort, French botanist.

• Scutellaria baicalensis Chinese skullcap Z 4-8

  Many stemmed clump, the top third of each stem bears one-sided ladders of rich purple flowers, from a tube connected to the stem opening into two petal-like hoods, one above the other, the top all purple and the bottom purple with a white blotch the shape of a handlebar mustache.   This beauty blooms summer into fall.

  

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  Many stemmed clump, the top third of each stem bears one-sided ladders of rich purple flowers, from a tube connected to the stem opening into two petal-like hoods, one above the other, the top all purple and the bottom purple with a white blotch the shape of a handlebar mustache.   This beauty blooms summer into fall.

  Size: 12” x 12”
  Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
  Native: eastern Asia, Siberia
  Wildlife Value: rabbit resistant

  Linnaeus’ imaginative mind named this genus after the Latin sculellum meaning “a little dish,” because of its resemblance to the flower’s helmet-shaped petal-like calyx.  Used medicinally since ancient times in China to cure colds, fever, headaches, and insomnia.

• Scutellaria diffusa Turkish skullcap Z 5-10

  Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems.  Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.

  

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  Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems.  Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.

  Size: 4-6” x 12”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Turkey, Lebanon and Syria
  Wildlife Value: deer resistant

  First published by Swiss botanist A.P.de Candolle in Prodr. 12: 421 (1848)

• Scutellaria incana syn. Scutellaria canescens, Scutellaria villosa Downy skullcap Z 4-9

  Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded  

  

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  Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded

  Size: 2-3’ x 12-18"
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Reblooms if deadhead after 1st flush of flowers
  Native: NY to WI, Georgia to TX, Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Its nectar feeds small butterflies, Bumblebees and Hummingbirds.

  The name Scuttelaria is from Latin scutella meaning a small dish or saucer referring to the shape of the persistent calyx, a covering at the flower’s base. Incana means grey referring to the tiny hairs on stems and undersides of leaves giving a greyish color. Named by Johann Friedrich Theodor Biehler, German botanist from the plant specimens in Christian Sprengel’s (1750-1816) herbarium in 1807. How did German botanist Sprengel, who never set foot in America, come to have a pressed specimen of this native American plant? Sprengel and German botanist, minister and college president,  Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) were close collaborators. Another German botanist Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815), living in Lancaster Pennsylvania, sent many American plants specimens to Willedenow. Scutellaria incana is native to and grows in what is now called Muhlenberg Meadow in Lancaster County PA. These connections make it likely that the specimen Biehler saw came from Henry Muhlenberg.

• Scutellaria resinosa syn. Scutellaria wrightii Prairie skullcap Z 4-9

  Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall

  

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  Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall

  Size: 10” x 10”
  Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil, drought tolerant
  Native: Colorado, NM, KS, Oklahoma, TX, collected on the Canadian River, tributary of Arkansas River
  Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant. Nectar and pollen attract butterflies and bees.

  Described by botanist John Torrey in Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of NY 2: 232 (1828)

• Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ syn. Sedum reflexum ‘Angelina’ Spruce-leaved stonecrop Z 4-8

  Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.

  

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  Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.

  Size: 4-6” x 1-2’ spreader
  Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
  Wildlife Value: Rabbit and Deer resistant. Drought tolerant.

  Species grown at America’s 1^st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811