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Succisa pratensis Devil’s bit scabiosus Z 5- 9
A tall, thin stem, unbranched until its upper quarter, then branching, each branch topped with its own flower head. Innumerable tiny flowers surround a global, lake-blue flower head, about the size of a ping-pong ball. Thread-like stamens poke out from the flowers all around the globe – blue too. Blooms for nearly three months mid-to-late summer into fall.
A tall, thin stem, unbranched until its upper quarter, then branching, each branch topped with its own flower head. Innumerable tiny flowers surround a global, lake-blue flower head, about the size of a ping-pong ball. Thread-like stamens poke out from the flowers all around the globe – blue too. Blooms for nearly three months mid-to-late summer into fall.
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Size: 2-4’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist-well drained soil
Native: Europe to central Siberia, NW Africa
Wildlife Value: provides nectar and pollen to butterflies, moths, and beesHistorically this has made a dye, a tea, and seasoned food. It treated numerous medical conditions including scabies, eczema, fevers, wounds, syphilis and plague. Devil’s bit named for the legend that the Devil disapproved of the plant uses and attempted to destroy it by biting off its roots. First described by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1623, Pinax theatri botanici, with a different name. Linnaeus renamed it in Hortus Cliffortanus, 1737and then Möench renamed it to Succisa pratensis in 1794.
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Symphoricarpos albus Snowberry Z 3-7
Small pink bell-shaped flowers turn into copious clusters of round, white berries, like miniature snowballs, grace this shrub from late summer through winter.
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Small pink bell-shaped flowers turn into copious clusters of round, white berries, like miniature snowballs, grace this shrub from late summer through winter.
Size: 3-6’ x 3-6’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Canada east to west coasts; US all states north from Virginia to California. Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: deer tolerant, attracts numerous birds including Hummingbirds, Towhees, Grouses, Robins, and Waxwings for nesting and food, although the fruit is poison to humans. Bees flock to the flowers’ pollen. Host for caterpillars of the Snowberry Sphinx moth and Snowberry Clearwing moth.Pauites of Oregon constructed cradle boards with the wood, sharpened the stem for digging tool and used its branches in a game of dice. The Nez Perce boiled sticks in water then used to remedy fevers, and encircled its branches around cradleboards to protect babies from ghosts. Flathead cured injured eyes with juice for the fruit and made a paste of its fruit, bark and leaves to remedy skin ailments and burns. For the Blackfoot the smoke from burning twigs blackened newly made pipes. Sioux made a diauretic from the fruit. Ojibwa speeded up convalescence for new mothers after giving birth with water infused with this. Shoshone made arrows from shoots for small birds. Collected for botany before 1753. Also collected on Lewis and Clark Expedition along the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs.
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Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Coralberry Z 3-7
Baby-pink flowers in spring to early summer give way to clustered coral-colored berries that last through winter.
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Baby-pink flowers in spring to early summer give way to clustered coral-colored berries that last through winter.
Size: 2’-5’ x 5-8’
Care: Part to full shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Eastern US from NY south to eastern TX, west to SD & CO.
Wildlife Value: pollen and nectar for small bees and butterfliesWas classified simultaneously by Michaux, Linnaeus, and finally Moench (1794) whose designation is used today.
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Symphyandra pendula Bellflower Z 5-8
Panicles of creamy white bell-shaped flowers dangle over heart-shaped foliage March-June
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Panicles of creamy white bell-shaped flowers dangle over heart-shaped foliage March-June
Size: 20” x 12”
Care: Full to part sun in well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and birdsCollected before 1830
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Symphyandra zanzegura syn Campanula zanzegura Ring bellflower, Rock bellflower Z 5-10
Flared petal ends of lilac bells on wiry red stems over soft, velvety leaves bloom much of summer.
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Flared petal ends of lilac bells on wiry red stems over soft, velvety leaves bloom much of summer.
Size: 15” x 15”
Care: full to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: mountains of Armenia, Eastern Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts beesDescribed and published by Ukrainian botanist Vladimir Lipsky (1863-1937) in 1894. Reclassified as a Campanula in 1980.
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Syneilesis aconitifolia syn Senecio aconitifolius Shredded Umbrella Plant Z 3-8
Grown for its excellent foliage in dry shade. I guess “Shredded umbrella” best describes this plant with thin, dissected leaves atop a leafless stem. drooping in a rounded shape, like an umbrella, but it wouldn’t shelter from rain. Pale pink to white flowers in early to mid-summer.
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Grown for its excellent foliage in dry shade. “Shredded umbrella” best describes this plant with thin, dissected leaves atop a leafless stem. Drooping in a rounded shape, like an umbrella, but it wouldn’t shelter from rain. Pale pink to white flowers in early to mid-summer.
Size: 3’ x 2’, spreads slowly by rhizomes
Care: part to full shade in moist, well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once established.
Native: China, Korea & Japan and eastern Russia
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant.Described in Flora of China in 1833. Chinese used the whole plant for medicine, to relax and activate the tendons, alleviate pain around the waist and legs, and to treat most any injuries.
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Synthyris missourica Mountain Kittentails Z 5-9
Spring flowering, true blue short stalks above leathery, evergreen leaves, circular with tooth margins.
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Spring flowering, true blue short stalks above leathery, evergreen leaves, circular with tooth margins.
Size: 5-12” x 12” spreading into clumps by rhizomes.
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Mountains of northeast CA, Washington, Idaho & west to MontanaCollected by Meriwether Lewis on June 26, 1806 in today’s Idaho near the headwaters of what they named Hungry Creek. Common name kittentails imaginatively named for the flower stalk and its protruding stamens resembling, if you squint real hard and maybe after taking a swig of whiskey, fuzzy, blue kitten tails.
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Syringa vulgaris Lilac, French lilac Z 4-8 SHRUB/SMALL TREE
Single or double, very fragrant lilac panicles in late spring
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Single or double, very fragrant lilac panicles in late spring
Size: 20’ x 15’
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: SE Europe, Caucasus to AfghanistanIntroduced to European from its native Turkey by Viennese ambassador De Busbecq (1522-1592). Grown in Jefferson’s garden at Monticello and Washington’s Mount Vernon. By 1850 “found in almost every (American) garden.” Breck (1851) ‘Alba’ listed in Tradescant the Elder’s 1634 list as “Lilac Matthioli.” Elias Ashmole’s manuscript, “trees found in Mrs. Tradescants ground when it came into my possession (1662) as ‘Syringa alba.’ ” Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
