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  • Teucrium hircanicum syn. T hyrcanicum Iranian germander, Purple Tails, Wood Sage Z 5-8

    Loads of deep purple erect spikes from mid-summer through fall making this subshrub one of the best

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    Loads of deep purple erect spikes from mid-summer through fall making this subshrub one of the best

    Size: 18-24” x 24”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Caucausus and Iran
    Wildlife Value: attract butterflies, deer resistant

    Described and named by 1753

  • Teucrium montanum Mountain germander, Creeping germander Z 5-8

    Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a  single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming  all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.

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    Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a  single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming  all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.

    Size: 10” x spreading
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Spain across the Alps and east as far as Turkey

    The word teucrium believed to be named for Teucer, king in ancient Troy . He reputedly made medicine from teucrium. Known more than two centuries ago in ancient Greece and Rome

  • Thalictrum alpinum Alpine meadowrue Z 2-9

    Flowering June, purple skirt surrounding dangling yellow anthers on this petite Meadowrue

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    Flowering June, purple skirt surrounding dangling yellow anthers on this petite Meadowrue

    Size: 8” x 4”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Mountains Western US, north to Alaska, Eastern Canada, Siberia, Europe & China

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  In China called “gao shan tang cao.”  Collected before 1679.

  • Thalictrum aquilegifolium Meadowrue, Feathered columbine Z 5-9

    Delicate lavender to pink panicles of showy stamens in early summer

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    Delicate lavender to pink panicles of showy stamens in early summer

    Size: 36" x 18"
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist humusy soil
    Native: Europe and North Asia
    Wildlife Value: attracts Black swallowtail butterfly

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  In 1629 Parkinson, apothecary to James I and later, botanist to Charles I, called this “Tufted columbine” a descriptive name, the flowers are tufted, and the leaves resemble those of a columbine.  Ancient Romans used it to cure ulcers, the plague and “the Faundife.”  Romans stuffed children’s’ pillows with the flowers to bring them wealth.  Liberty Hyde Bailey described Thalictrum aquilegifolium as: “A good garden plant and frequently planted,”(1933). Cultivated in U.S. since 1700’s.

  • Thalictrum coriaceum  Maid of the Mist Z 5-7

    Broad panicle of white flowers with maroon-colored filaments and tips of stigma flowering May to June

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    Broad panicle of white flowers with maroon-colored filaments and tips of stigma flowering May to June

    Size: 3-5’ x 2’
    Care: sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Uncommon, central and southern Appalachian endemic, Pennsylvania to northern Georgia west to West Virginia and Tennessee, primarily in the mountains

    First described in 1891 in “Torrey Bot. Club” 18:363, 1891. Collected on Rock Table and Stone Mountains in North Carolina in 1891 by J.K. Small (1869-1938) and A.A. Heller and by “Professor Porter in the same region many years before.”

  • Thalictrum dasycarpum Purple meadowrue Z 4-7

    Panicles of delicate dangling ivory flowers May to July, purple stems

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    Panicles of delicate dangling ivory flowers May to July, purple stems.

    Size: 4-5’ x 2’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to moist soil
    Native: All North America except Atlantic & Pacific coasts and northern Canada, Wisconsin native

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  Collected for gardens by 1842.  Used by Native Americans to enliven horses by giving them seeds or rubbing a poltice on their muzzles.  (Pawnee & Lakota).  Meskwaki, Ponca & Potawatomi used as an aphrodisiac.  Potawatomi smoked a mixture of this and tobacco before meeting their woman.  HoChunk used it to perfume smoke. For Potawatomi smoking dried seeds brought luck in hunting.  Oneidas consider this a medication for kidney ailments. Ponca boys made flutes from the hollow stems. Winnebago perfumed smoke with this. Lakotaa Sioux fed this to horses to stimulate energy and masticated then rubbed it on their skin to repel insects.

  • Thalictrum delavayi syn. Thalictrum dipterocarpum Yunnan meadow rue Z 4-7

    Purple to lavender flowers of sepals and stamens from July to August. Delicate-looking leaflets smaller than on most other Meadowrues.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Purple to lavender flowers of sepals and stamens from July to August. Delicate-looking leaflets smaller than on most other Meadowrues.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 30” x 20”
    Care: sun - part shade in moist humusy soil
    Native: Tibet and China
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  This species discovered by and named for Pére Jean Delavay (1838-1895), French missionary to China.  Delavay found about 1500 new species in his three (3) trips to China. He sent his discoveries to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.  In 1880 he contracted bubonic plague while in China, which disabled him the remainder of his life.

  • Thalictrum dioicum Early meadowrue Z 5-9

    Chartreuse blooms in spring

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    Hanging chartreuse blooms dangle from the stems in spring

    Size: 20" x 24"
    Care: shade to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Quebec west to No. Dakota, south to Georgia, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly. Deer resistant.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  Cherokee made an infusion of the root to cure nausea and diarrhea.  Iroquois used it to remedy sore eyes and heart palpitations.  The plant also would “make you crazy.”  One of 1st No. American plants sent to Europe – grew in Tradescant the Elder’s South Lambeth nursery in 1634.  Collected again by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  Scotsman Thomas Drummond collected this on the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.