Plants for Hummingbirds
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Xerophyllum tenax Turkey beard, Indian basket grass Z 5-8
Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.
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Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.
Size: 3-5’ x 24-30”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: British Columbia, to Montana & WYSeveral western Indian tribes wove baskets & hats from the leaves & roasted the roots for food. Blackfoot applied the plant to wounds to stop bleeding and repair breaks & sprains. Collected by Meriwether Lewis June 15, 1806 just east of Weippe Prairie and west of Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho.
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Zauschneria garetii syn Epilobium canum ssp. garrettii Hummingbird trumpet, California fuchsia, Garrett’s Firechalice Z 5-9
Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.
Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.
Size: 12” x 18-24”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Kingston Mountains in CA, Utah, Idaho & Wyoming
Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, birds and butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistantCollected in Utah’s Big Cottonweed Canyon in 1906 by A.O. Garrett (1870-1948), prolific Utah planthunter.
