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  • Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9

    All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.

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    All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.

    Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant, salt tolerant

    Described by Linnaeus, 1753. The name Limoniuim comes from the Greek word for meadow.

  • Linaria alpina Alpine toadflax Z 5-8

    Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and  show off golden-orange lips

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    Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and  show off golden-orange lips

    Size: 4-6” x 6-12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Mountains of central and southern Europe

    Listed in Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  Wm Robinson in July 1872 issue of The Garden: “The alpine Linaria is never more beautiful than when self-sown in a gravel walk.” January 1876 bloomed for 4+ months in the rock garden at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

  • Linaria purpurea Purple toadflax Z 5-9

    Violet racemes all summer July to September

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    Violet racemes all summer through fall

    Size: 36” x 12”
    Care: Sun, well-drained soil
    Native: Southern Europe

    Both the Latin and common names are related to flax.  Linaria comes from “linum” which is Greek for “flax” and toadflax includes the word “flax.”  The leaves of Linaria purpurea resemble flax leaves.  According to 17th century English herbalist, John Parkinson, the plant “causes one to make water.”  Grown by English plantsman and explorer, Tradescant the Elder, 1634.

  • Linum alpinum Alpine flax, Mountain flax Z 4-9

    Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny border. Bushy mound of small soft-blue saucers for weeks in late spring & early summer.  Reblooms if you cut it half way back in late June

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    Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny border. Bushy mound of small soft-blue saucers for weeks in late spring & early summer.  Reblooms if you cut it half way back in late June

    Size: 8-12” x 10-12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: mountains of Europe

    Published as a separate species in 1925.

  • Linum flavum compactum Dwarf golden flax Z 4-9 SUBSHRUB

    Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.

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    Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.

    Size: 6- 12”x 14”
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Central & So. Europe

    Described by Parkinson in 1640. “Flowers golden yellow, in a much branching cyme, the showy petals much exceeding the …sepals … not popularly known in this country.” L H Bailey (1933)

  • Linum perenne ‘Lewisii’ Perennial flax, Prairie flax Z 4-8

    Sky blue flowers closing by afternoon all summer

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    Sky blue flowers closing by afternoon all summer

    Size: 24" x 12"
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
    Native: Wisconsin west and south

    Linum is Greek for “flax,”, a different species grown for centuries as the source of linen cloth.  This variety was named for Meriwether Lewis who found this plant on July 9, 1806 near Great Falls, Montana. Western Natives used the seeds in cooking; Navajo for heartburn; Okanagon as a shampoo; Sioux ate the leaves to cure poor circulation, fever, cramps. They added it to a mixture for smoking.

  • Liquidambar styrociflua Sweet gum Z 5-9

    Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange.  Gum ball fruit matures in winter.

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    Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange.  Gum ball fruit matures in winter.

    Size: 60-80‘ x 40-60’
    Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil
    Native: Eastern US north to southern IL & west to Mississippi River.
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant & black walnut tolerant. Seeds food for numerous birds.
    Size: Cherokee made a salve for wounds & sores from the tree & mixed it with sheep or cow tallow for itches.

    Collected before 1753. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

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  • Liriodendron tulipfera Tulip tree Z 4-9

    Large tulip-shaped yellow-green petals surround orange corolla, Ornamental leaves turn yellow in fall

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    Large tulip-shaped yellow-green petals surround orange corolla, Ornamental leaves turn yellow in fall

    Size: 80-100’ x 30’
    Care: sun in well drained to moist well drained soil. Fast growing and strong wood.
    Native: New England to FL, Ontario to IL, south to Louisiana and all states in between.
    Wildlife Value: attracts Tiger swallowtail butterfly.
    Awards: Recipient Great Plant Pick Award from Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden & England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Great Plants for Great Plains

    One of the oldest flowering trees – about 95 million years old. Cherokee cured pinworms, cholera, dysentery, coughs, wounds, boils, fever, bone fractures, indigestion, snakebites, and “women with hysterics” with Tulip tree.  Because it is light weight but strong, they made canoes for up to 20 people with Tulip tree wood.  The Rappahannock chewed the bark as a stimulant for sex.   Sent to Europe by Tradescant the Younger (1608-1662) before 1640.  Grown by Jefferson.  Washington planted them as an allée around the serpentine bowling green at Mount Vernon.

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