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Scabiosa columbaria f. nana Dwarf dove pincushions Z 4-8
Lavender- blue pincushions
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Lavender- blue pincushions on this short, front-of-the-border flower that blooms for four, yes, 4, months, June to September. Deadhead to promote reblooming.
Size: 6-12” x 12-18”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained alkaline soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birdsDifferent colored ones including lavender and pink described in The Garden 1872.
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Scabiosa japonica var. alpina Alpine pincushion flower Z 4-9
Lavender-blue pincushions over mound of gray-green foliage, blooms June-September
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Lavender-blue pincushions over mound of gray-green foliage, blooms June-September
Size: 6-12” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Japan’s subalpine meadows
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and birdsDescribed by Japanese botanist Hosayoshi Takeda before 1962.
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Scabiosa lucida Pincushion flower Z 4-9
Lilac pincushions all summer & fall
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Lilac pincushions all summer & fall, non-stop
Size: 24" x 12"
Care: full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: Central and Eastern Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesScabiosa from Latin scabies referring to the itch caused by a mite infestation, which another Scabiosa species allegedly cured. This species 1st described in a French publication in 1779.
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Scabiosa ochroleuca Cream pincushion Z 4-9
Looking for a non-stop bloomer? Cream petals compacted together bloom atop tall, wiry stems from June to October
Looking for a non-stop bloomer? Cream petals compacted together bloom atop tall, wiry stems from June to October
Size: 18"-24" x 18"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Europe & Asia
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesThe name scabiosa from Latin scabies refers to the mite infestation that this plant was supposed to cure; ochroleuca means “yellowish white.” First described by Swiss botanist Bauhin Caspar (1560-1642) in Pinax theatri botanici in 1623.
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Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparium Little bluestem Z 3-9
Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall.
Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall
Size: 18" x 12"
Care: sun in well-drained soil.
Native: all No. America, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: leaves are food for Skipper butterfly caterpillars and seeds food for songbirdsComanche used it to remedy syphilitic sores. Lakota made soft, wispy seedheads into liners for moccasins. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) in America’s prairies c. 1790
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Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Rosea’ Pink Japanese hydrangea vine Z 5-8
Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
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Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
Size: 20-30’ x 6-9’
Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan where they “climb the trunks of tall trees and blossom among the lower limbs.” Arnold Arboretum Bulletin 1933.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.‘Rosea’ found by English planthunter Charles Maries c. 1878, collecting for London’s Veitch Nursery and referred to in The Book of Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs, Samuel Arnett 1902.
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Scrophularia macrantha syn. Scrophularia coccinea Redbirds in a Tree, Mimbres figwort Z 5-10
This sub-shrub blooms from early summer until frost with white-lipped cherry-red, tubular flowers that look like a flock of inch-long, baby birds with open mouths waiting for food, each topping short stems along the branches. The margins of its oval green leaves are toothed.
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This sub-shrub blooms from early summer until frost with white-lipped cherry-red, tubular flowers that look like a flock of inch-long, baby birds with open mouths waiting for food, each topping short stems along the branches. The margins of its oval green leaves are toothed.
Size: 2-4’ x 18”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Little to no fertilizer.
Native: Three mountain tops in southern New Mexico (high elevations make it hardy to cold regions)
Wildlife Value: Its nectar is one of the best feeders and attractors for hummingbirds. Pollen and nectar also attract butterflies and bees.
Awards: 2008 Plant Select WinnerFirst collected on the Mexican Boundary Expedition by Charles Wright (1811-1885) and John Bigelow (1804-1878), “at the base of a rocky ledge near the summit of a mountain . . .a truly handsome species.” Described by Asa Gray, Torrey, John ed. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey Vol. 2 p. 111 (1859)
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Scutellaria alpina Alpine skullcap Z 5-9
Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July - October.
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Bailey (1913): “A hardy spreading perennial about 10 in. high, with ovate, serrately dentate leaves and large, purple and white, somewhat yellowish flowers in dense, terminal racemes. … A handsome rock or low border perennial.” Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July – October.
Size: 6-10” x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Pyrenees, Appennines to the Balkans; central Russia to southern SiberiaLinnaeus’ imaginative mind named this genus after the Latin sculellum meaning “a little dish,” because of its resemblance to the flower’s helmet-shaped calyx. In gardens before 1753.
