Plants for Hummingbirds
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Kniphofia caulescens Red hot poker, Regal torch lily Z 5-10
fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow
Evergreen perennial with short, stout stems bearing grass-like broad, grey-green leaves. Blooming July to August, fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow
Size: 3’ x 2-3’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Lesotho South Africa
Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts hummingbirds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Denver Botanic Garden Plant SelectIntroduced to gardens by Mr. T. Cooper about 1860. 1st described by French botanist Carrière in Revue Horticole in 1884
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Kniphofia triangularis Dwarf Red hot poker Z 5-8
From early to late summer, with dead-heading, vivid coral spikes, like a torch .
From early to late summer, with dead-heading, vivid coral spikes, like a torch. This plant has everything- resistant to deer & rabbits, long blooming, great cut flowers, hummingbirds and butterflies love it.
Size: 2’ x 12-18”
Care: sun in moist to well-drained soil, Drought tolerant once established
Native: mountain grassland & moist areas in the Eastern Cape to the Northern province of South Africa.
Wildlife Value: resistant to deer & rabbits, hummingbirds and butterflies love it.1st described in 1854 in Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Vol. 4 p. 551
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Liatris aspera Rough blazing star Z 4-9
Feathery purple buttons along tall spikes August-October
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Feathery purple buttons along tall spike in late summer: August-October
Size: 24”-30” x 12”-18”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: So. Canada, much of eastern 3/4th of U.S., Wisconsin Native
Wildlife Value: attract butterflies (favorite nectar for Monarchs and Buckeyes) & hummingbirds.Aspera is Latin meaning rough. 1st collected by Frenchman André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years in America collecting hundreds of new plants.
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Lilium canadense, Z 2-6
Showy, drooping bell-shaped flowers from lemon to dark orange in color with conspicuous red spots on the inside
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Showy, drooping flowers from lemon to dark orange in color with conspicuous red spots on the inside.
Size: 2-4’ x 6”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained, slightly acidic soil
Native: Upper Great Lakes & southern Canada
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesIntroduced to gardens from its native North America by Jacques Cartier, 1535. Also collected by Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm (1716-1779) who collected in Northeastern US and SE Canada and sent it to Linnaeus. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Listed in the 1873 catalog of Leichtlin’schen Gartens in Baden-Baden.
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Lilium lancifolium Tiger lily, in Japan called “oniyuri” Z 2-7
Late summer, orange, recurved blossoms with black spots
Late summer, orange, recurved blossoms with black spots
Can not ship to: Delaware and Maryland.
Size: 3-4' x 12"
Care: Sun to part shade in any soil
Native: AsiaLilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. The Tiger lily was in Chinese literature as long ago as the 10th century. The Chinese grew it in rows as a vegetable and wrote it brought the pained dragon to life. First described for the West by Englebert Kaempfer, physician to Dutch East India Co. on Deschema Island in the 1690’s. William Kerr sent the Tiger lily from Canton China to Kew in England in 1804. First Asian lily imported to America. A Tiger lily grew in Wonderland’s looking glass garden where it told Alice “We can talk…when there is anybody worth talking to.”
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Lilium michiganense Michigan lily Z 4-8
The top of each erect stem curves over like a hook. A single red or orange flower dangles from the stem’s tip. Spotted petals (botanically called tepals) curve up with their tips nearly reaching the top of the flower. Stamens hang down from the center then flare out inviting bees and butterflies to its pollen. They flower for nearly a month in mid-summer.
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The top of each erect stem curves over like a hook. A single red or orange flower dangles from the stem’s tip. Spotted petals (botanically called tepals) curve up with their tips nearly reaching the top of the flower. Stamens hang down from the center then flare out inviting bees and butterflies to its pollen. They flower for nearly a month in mid-summer.
Size: 2-5’ x 8-10”
Care: sun to part-shade in moist to moist well-drained, neutral to acidic soil.
Native: New Hampshire west to Wisconsin, south to Arkansas, east to Alabama and Florida
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterfliesThis had several prior names, as varieties or subspecies of Lilium canadense or Lilium speciosum. In 1915 botanist Oliver Atkins Farwell (1867-1944) renamed it in “Notes of Michigan Liliaceae,” Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 42, p. 353, based on one he collected in 1910 in Wiard’s Crossing, Michigan.
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Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal flower Z 3-9
Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.
Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.
Size: 3’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in fertile, moist soil. Moist soil important
Native: Canada to Texas, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.Cherokee cured stomach aches, worms, pain, fever, nose bleeds, rheumatism, headaches, colds, and croup with Lobelia. They used the root to treat syphilis. Other Natives and colonists used the plant to induce vomiting. At the end of a funeral, Meskwaki Indians threw the dried and pulverized plant into the grave. Meskwaki also chopped the roots and secretly put it in the food of “a quarrelsome pair.” Allegedly “this makes the pair love each other again.” Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) French expatriate who immigrated to England and became physician to English King James I. Tradescant the Younger introduced this to European gardens when he sent it to England in 1637. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside. In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Indians used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, “an infallible art of curing it.” Grown by Washington at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Lobelia siphilitica ‘Alba’ z 4-8
A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.
A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
Native: The blue form, the species Lobelia siphilitica is native from Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, attracts bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies.This white one is “An albino of occasional occurrence.” Britton, Nathaniel Lord “On the Naming of ‘Forms,’ in the New Jersey Catalogue” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 17: 121,125. 1890. This may, therefore, be native in the same locations as the blue species or it may not.
