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  • Polygonum virginianum syn. Persicaria virginiana Jumpseed Z 4-8

    Arresting tiny white flowers atop nearly leafless stems blooming late summer into fall; dark green foliage marked with a maroon chevron on each leaf

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    Arresting tiny white flowers atop nearly leafless stems blooming late summer into fall;
    dark green foliage marked with a maroon chevron on each leaf

    Size: 2-3’ x 3-4’
    Care: shade to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: All eastern areas from central Canada south to Texas, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts birds, bees & butterflies, Deer resistant
    Size: Cherokee made a hot infusion of leaves with the bark of a Honey Locust to treat whooping cough.

    Linnaeus 1753.

  • Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas fern Z 3-10

    Leathery, lance-shaped evergreen fronds.

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    Leathery, lance-shaped evergreen fronds.

    Size: H 18” S 18”
    Care: part shade to full shade in most any soil, nearly indestructable
    Native: Every state east of the Rockies
    Awards: Kentucky's Theodore Klein Plant Award

    Evergreen fronds last all winter.  Called “Christmas” because in the past florist used the evergreen fronds in holiday arrangements.  Collected by Michaux before 1800.

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  • Polystichum tsus-simense Korean Rock Fern Z 5-9

    Compact, glossy green fronds with black stems growing in a rosette.

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    Compact, glossy green fronds with black stems growing in a rosette.

    Size: 12-20” x 12-16”
    Care: Shade to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Korea
    Awards: Royal Horticulture Society Award of Garden Merit. Great Plant Pick Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden

    1st collected “on the “Island of Tsus Sima, in the Straits of Corea” by Charles Wilford in 1859.     Species Filicum, Vol. 4, p. 16 (1862) William J. Hooker, In 1854 Charles Wilford started as an assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sent to Asia  in 1857 he collected plants in Hong Kong, moving to Taiwan the following year and to Korea and Japan in 1859.

  • Potentilla argyrophylla Cinquefoil Z 5-8

    Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer

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    Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer

    Size: 24” x 24”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Nepal, China, Pakistan & Afghanastan

    Potentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties.  Argyrophylla means silver leaved.  Potentillas used by dentists in the 16th century to reduce pain according to Gerard, English herbalist.  Per Culpepper, 17th century English herbalist potentilla is to be used if Jupiter is ascending and the moon is “applying to him.”  This species collected by 1831.

  • Potentilla atrosanguinea Himalayan cinquefoil Z 5-8

    Open pink cups in June-July

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    Summer to autumn, ruby to pumpkin-colored blossoms shaped like a single petal rose, top pleated silvery foliage.

    Size: 18-24" x 24"
    Care: Sun well-drained soil
    Native: Himalayas

    Potentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. Potentillas used by dentists in the 16th century to reduce pain according to Gerard, English herbalist.  Per Culpepper, 17th century English herbalist, potentilla is to be used if Jupiter is ascending and the moon is “applying to him.” Atrosanguinea 1st collected in its native Nepal in 1822.  American garden cultivation of this species since mid-1800’s

  • Potentilla hippiana Woody cinquefoil Z 4-8

    Small clusters of yellow flowers atop fuzzy, toothed edged leaves

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    Small clusters of yellow flowers, July-August, atop fuzzy, toothed edged leaves

    Size: 5-20” x 12"
    Care: full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Central & Southeast USA & much of Canada
    Wildlife Value: Bee plant

    Johann Georg Lehmann (1792-1860) named this species in 1827 from a specimen collected by Edwin James in 1820 near the “sources of the Platte”.  Carl Hippio was, in Weber’s words, “a revered colleague of Lehmann”

  • Potentilla nepalensis Nepal cinquefoil Z 5-9

    Open pink saucers with raspberry centers, on a low mound of leaves blooming in mid to late summer. “A fine species,” Liberty Hyde Bailey 1933.

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    Open pink saucers with raspberry centers, on a low mound of leaves blooming in mid to late summer. “A fine species,” Liberty Hyde Bailey 1933.

    Size: 1-2' x 12-18"
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Himalayan mountains

    Potentilla is Latin meaning “powerful” referring to medicinal properties. 1st described in 1822 in Exotic flora.

  • Potentilla porphyrantha Z 3-8

    Hairy, gray foliage set off mid-pink blooms in spring

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    Hairy, gray foliage set off mid-pink blooms in spring

    Size: 6” x 15”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus Mountains in Armenia

    1st described for botany in 1940. Seems to be controversy among taxonomists about the plant’s name. Regardless, both the foliage and flowers make a beautiful little alpine plant.