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

    Limonium is Greek meaning “meadow” and latifolium means “wide leaf”.  This was identified by Dioscorides in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D.  Cultivated in gardens since 1700’s.  Formerly used to repel moths and cure canker sores.

  • 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.

    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 before 1640.  Grown by Jefferson.  Washington planted them as an allée around the serpentine bowling green.

    State tree of Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee.

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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.

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    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.

  • 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.

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    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.

  • Lobelia siphilitica Great lobelia Z 4-9

    A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, open flowers, made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

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    A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, open flowers, made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

    Size: 3' x 12"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumble bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies

    Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) a French expatriate who emigrated to England and became physician to English King James I.  Cherokee used the root to treat headaches, stomachaches, worms, nosebleeds, colds and syphilis.  1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.   In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Indians used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, having “an infallible art of curing it.”  According to John Bartram (1699-17760) “The learned Pehr Kalm (who gained the Knowledge of it from Colonel Johnson, who learned it of the Indians, who, after great Rewards bestowed on several of them, revealed the Secret to him) saith, That the Roots of this Plant cureth the Pox much more perfectly and easily than any mercurial Preparations, and is generally used by the Canada Indians, for the Cure of themselves“ (Better than mercury!) Oneidas considered this good medicine for distemper. Sioux treated bloat, diarrhea and dysentery as well as a love charm by adding powdered root to the food of the intended.  Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.