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Trillium luteum Yellow Trillium Ephemeral Z 4-8
Sometimes mottled, hosta-like leaves support a lemon-scented, three-petaled yellow blossom in April-May
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Sometimes mottled, hosta-like leaves support a lemon-scented, three-petaled yellow blossom in April-May
Size: 15” x 8”
Care: Shade to part shade in moist, well-drained soil
Native: Southeastern US
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Great Plant Pick, recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritFirst published description by Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815) American botanist Lutheran minister and college president.
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Trollius europaeus Globe flower Z 5-8
Ball-shaped deep golden buds opening to nearly orange cups with prominent stamens from May to June & sporadically in September
Ball-shaped deep golden buds opening to nearly orange cups with prominent stamens from May to June & sporadically in September
Size: 18-24”x 24”
Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to wet soil
Native: Northern EuropeThe name Trollius is derived from the old Swiss-German word trol meaning “something round,” referring to the shape of the flower. Swedes used the fragrant drying flower petals for a strewing herb. Introduced to European gardens by the 1500’s and cultivated in America in the 1700’s. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600.
Grown by Thomas Jefferson.
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Tulipa linifolia Flax-leaf tulip Z 3-8
Striking scarlet species tulip
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Striking scarlet species tulip with target black centers, flowering in mid to late spring. Unlike today’s hybrids these come back year after year and multiply in happy locations.
Size: 6" x 4"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Uzbekistan, northern Iran and Afghanistan.In late 1500’s herbalist Gerard detailed tulips’ culinary qualities,” The roots preserued with sugar, or otherwise dressed, may be eaten, and are no vnpleasant nor any way offensiue meat, but rather good and nourishing.” (This is not a suggestion that you eat the bulbs, rather, they are for planting adding spring beauty to your garden.) This species 1st described in 1884 by German botanist Eduard August von Regel (1815-1892) who served as the Director of the Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg Russia.
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Tunica saxifraga syn. Petrorhagia saxifraga Tunic flower Z 4-8
Free blooming pixie, palest of pink blossoms from June through October on wiry stems form a 4" tall mound.
Free blooming pixie, palest of pink blossoms from June through October on wiry stems form a 4″ tall mound.
Size: 6" x 8"
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: Pyrenees and Alps
Wildlife Value: Drought tolerant.
Awards: Royan Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
Size: Perfect for rock gardens, front of borders or groundcover.Tunica is Latin meaning tunic or coat referring to overlapping bracts beneath the flower. Before 1753. Near 1900 William Robinson (1838-1935) described the Tunic flower as having “elegant little rosy flowers … a neat plant for the rock garden and fringes of borders and thrives like a weed between the stones in a rough stone wall.”
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Umbilicus oppositifolius syn. Chiastophyllum oppositifolium Lamb’s tail Z 5-9
For shady gardens, a low mound of thick, succulent green leaves, bearing arching, upright stems with dangling chains of sulphur yellow flowers in May-June.
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For shady gardens, a low mound of thick, succulent green leaves, bearing arching, upright stems with dangling chains of sulphur yellow flowers in May-June.
Size: 6-8” x 10-12”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus Mountains
Awards: Recipient Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit1st described and named as Cotyledon oppostitfoilum in Bulletin scientifique (publié par l’) Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 2: 813. 1837.
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Uvularia grandiflora Largeflower bellwort, Fairybells Z 4-9
Graceful, hanging pale yellow bells, like a full skirt, in spring
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Graceful, hanging pale yellow bells, like a full skirt, in spring
Size: 10-20” x 6” spread slowly
Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Quebec to Ontario, NH to ND, Louisiana to Georgia, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritMenominee reduced swelling with this plant. Ojibwa cured stomach pains and Potawatomi mixed it with lard to cure sore muscles & backaches. Collected for gardens by 1802. Wm. Robinson considered this a “graceful perennial … the finest of the species.”
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Uvularia sessilifolia Merrybells Z 4-8
Elongated cream colored bells dangle under lily-like leaves in April-May
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Elongated cream colored bells dangle under lily-like leaves in April-May
Size: 6-10” X 8”
Care: Sun to shade in moist, well-drained acidic soil
Native: Eastern & central North America, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: attracts bees & other pollinatorsGrown at Elgin Botanic Garden, America’s 1st botanic garden, 1811. Cherokee made a tea from the roots to treat diarrhea; made a poultice for boils and cooked and ate the leaves. Iroquois made a tea from roots to purify blood and a poultice to mend broken bones. It is taken internally to aid in healing broken bones. Ojibwa used root in hunting to bring deer closer. Collected before 1753.
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Vaccinium angustifolium Lowbush Blueberry Z 2-6
Urn-shaped white flowers in May and June turn to glossy blue berries. Foliage turns fiery red in fall. This is the true native bearing small, intensely flavored blueberries.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Urn-shaped white flowers in May & June turn to glossy blue berries. Foliage turns fiery red in fall. The true native, bearing small, intensely flavored blueberries.
Size: 2-12” x 3’ spreading by runners
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained, very acidic soil. Mulch, roots shallow & wide spreading.
Native: entire NE of No. America as far west as Minnesota & South to N. Carolina, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: nectar source for butterflies esp. Zebra swallowtail Food source for moth caterpillars, terrestrial turtles, numerous birds (Turkey, Blue Jay, Bluebird, Wood thrush & Robin) and numerous mammals. Deer & rabbits like the branches & leaves. Habitat for ground nesting birds.
Awards: Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New EnglandDescribed in literature, 1789. Many Native Americans ate the berries (fresh or dried) or mixed berries with other ingredients for food: Algonquin, Iroquois, Ojibwa & Menominee. A few ate the flowers. Algonquin made medicine from the leaves and roots for colic, miscarriages & inducing labor. Ojibwa put dried flowers on hot stones to inhale the fumes for “craziness.” stated that the fruit, leaves, and root bark were useful in the treatment of mouth sores, diarrhea, and other bowel complaints. Winnebago dried the berries to and added them to flavor medicine including stimulate appetite https://nativeplants.ku.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Kindscher-1998-Huron-Smiths-Ethnobotany.pdf Rafinesque (1828-1830) discussed this taxon as a diarrhea cure. Berries were formerly rendered into a syrup-like beverage that was consumed for chronic dysentery. The leaves and root bark were made into a tea that was administered as a treatment forsore throats and diarrhea (Angier 1978; Krochmal and Krochmal 1973).”
