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  • Scutellaria altissima Somerset skullcap Z 4-10

    In early summer masses of upright stems bearing bi-colored, bluish-purple and white, snapdragon-like flowers, the hood being bluish-purple and the lower lip white.   Flowers grow on one side of the spike. This will re-bloom if you cut the flowers.

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    In early summer masses of upright stems bearing bi-colored, bluish-purple and white, snapdragon-like flowers, the hood being bluish-purple and the lower lip white.   Flowers grow on one side of the spike. This will re-bloom if you cut the flowers.

    Size: 24-36” x 18-24”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: central & eastern Europe
    Wildlife Value: pollen and nectar attracts bees and butterflies

    1st described and named in 1700 by Joseph Pitton Tournefort, French botanist.

  • Scutellaria baicalensis Chinese skullcap Z 4-8

    Many stemmed clump, the top third of each stem bears one-sided ladders of rich purple flowers, from a tube connected to the stem opening into two petal-like hoods, one above the other, the top all purple and the bottom purple with a white blotch the shape of a handlebar mustache.   This beauty blooms summer into fall.

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    Many stemmed clump, the top third of each stem bears one-sided ladders of rich purple flowers, from a tube connected to the stem opening into two petal-like hoods, one above the other, the top all purple and the bottom purple with a white blotch the shape of a handlebar mustache.   This beauty blooms summer into fall.

    Size: 12” x 12”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: eastern Asia, Siberia
    Wildlife Value: rabbit resistant

    Linnaeus’ imaginative mind named this genus after the Latin sculellum meaning “a little dish,” because of its resemblance to the flower’s helmet-shaped petal-like calyx.  Used medicinally since ancient times in China to cure colds, fever, headaches, and insomnia.

  • Scutellaria diffusa Turkish skullcap Z 5-10

    Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems.  Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.

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    Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems.  Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.

    Size: 4-6” x 12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Turkey, Lebanon and Syria
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant

    First published by Swiss botanist A.P.de Candolle in Prodr. 12: 421 (1848)

  • Scutellaria incana syn. Scutellaria canescens, Scutellaria villosa Downy skullcap Z 4-9

    Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded  

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    Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded

    Size: 2-3’ x 12-18"
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Reblooms if deadhead after 1st flush of flowers
    Native: NY to WI, Georgia to TX, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Its nectar feeds small butterflies, Bumblebees and Hummingbirds.

    The name Scuttelaria is from Latin scutella meaning a small dish or saucer referring to the shape of the persistent calyx, a covering at the flower’s base. Incana means grey referring to the tiny hairs on stems and undersides of leaves giving a greyish color. Named by Johann Friedrich Theodor Biehler, German botanist from the plant specimens in Christian Sprengel’s (1750-1816) herbarium in 1807. How did German botanist Sprengel, who never set foot in America, come to have a pressed specimen of this native American plant? Sprengel and German botanist, minister and college president,  Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) were close collaborators. Another German botanist Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815), living in Lancaster Pennsylvania, sent many American plants specimens to Willedenow. Scutellaria incana is native to and grows in what is now called Muhlenberg Meadow in Lancaster County PA. These connections make it likely that the specimen Biehler saw came from Henry Muhlenberg.

  • Scutellaria resinosa syn. Scutellaria wrightii Prairie skullcap Z 4-9

    Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall

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    Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall

    Size: 10” x 10”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil, drought tolerant
    Native: Colorado, NM, KS, Oklahoma, TX, collected on the Canadian River, tributary of Arkansas River
    Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant. Nectar and pollen attract butterflies and bees.

    Described by botanist John Torrey in Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of NY 2: 232 (1828)

  • Sedum album White stonecrop Z 3-8

    Clusters of tiny white flowers bloom in mid-summer above  succulent, cylindrical foliage.

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    Clusters of tiny white flowers bloom in mid-summer above  succulent, cylindrical foliage.

    Size: 3-6" x 12-18" spreading making an easy groundcover
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa
    Wildlife Value: Butterflies attracted to flowers, Deer and rabbit resistant.

    Sedum means “plant that sits.”  “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds.  In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow.  This species collected before 1671. It “grows naturally upon old walls in many parts of England.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  In 1867 described as “growing, ever so luxuriantly upon roofs and walls (as well as) the rocks at Great Malvern…” Botany of Worcestershire. Landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing recommended this for edging, 1868.

  • Sedum hispanicum var. minus ‘Purple Form’ Little Blue Spanish stonecrop, Tiny buttons Z 4-9

    Many petite faintly pink flowers in June, soft, succulent, glaucous leaves form a perfect mound.

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    Many petite faintly pink flowers in June, soft, succulent, glaucous leaves form a perfect mound. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof garden, troughs and groundcover, or any place with drought.

    Size: 2” x 8”
    Care: sun to part sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Southern Europe, Balkan peninsula

    The variety minus is considered a synonym of the species which was described by the father of botany, Linnaeus, in 1750’s.

  • Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ syn. Sedum reflexum ‘Angelina’ Spruce-leaved stonecrop Z 4-8

    Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.

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    Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.

    Size: 4-6” x 1-2’ spreader
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
    Wildlife Value: Rabbit and Deer resistant. Drought tolerant.

    Species grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811