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  • Wisteria frutescens syn. Wisteria macrostachya America wisteria Z. 5-8

    Lush, dense, drooping, fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like racemes in late summer on new fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like. drooping flower-clusters in early summer on new stems.

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    Lush, dense, drooping, fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like racemes in late summer on new fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like. drooping flower-clusters in early summer on new stems.

    Size: 12-20’ x 4’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist, mildly acidic soil For best flowering trim vine to four buds from last year's new growth in late winter or early spring, before this year's growth begins. A legume, so it enriches the soil by adding nitrogen. Seed pods poisonous.
    Native: Virginia to FL, west to TX, north to IL
    Wildlife Value: Larval host for Marine Blue skipper butterfly. Deer resistant

    Collected before 1753. Wisteria named “in memory of Caspar Wistar,(1761-1818) M.D. late professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years president of the American Philosophical Society: a philanthropist of simple manners, and modest pretensions, but an active promoter of science.” Thomas Nuttall.

  • Xanthorhiza simplicissima Yellowroot Z 4-9

    Short, spreading shrub, blooms sprays of plum-colored flowers in spring, then forming berries.  For dessert its leaves turn yellow, purple and maroon in fall. Excellent groundcover under trees and for erosion control. Will suppress weeds.

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    Short, spreading shrub, blooms sprays of plum-colored flowers in spring, then forming berries.  For dessert its leaves turn yellow, purple and maroon in fall. Excellent groundcover under trees and for erosion control. Will suppress weeds.

    Size: 2-3” x spreading
    Care: filtered sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained, slightly acidic soil
    Native: Maine to FL and west to Ohio
    Wildlife Value: food and habitat for several birds.

    Colonial horticulturist William Bartram found it near Buffalo Lick GA in 1773.  He wrote: “This evening I discovered a very curious Little Shrub, growing on the bottoms of these Hills & on the steep banks of the Creek. . . the root affording strong Yellow Tincture. . . It has long slender branching Roots which run & spread about . . . filling large patches of ground . . . it is in my opinion a very valuable Shrub . .”

    Native Americans dyed fibers with the yellow root.

  • Xerophyllum tenax  Turkey beard, Indian basket grass    Z 5-8

    Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.

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    Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.

    Size: 3-5’ x 24-30”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: British Columbia, to Montana & WY

    Several western Indian tribes wove baskets & hats from the leaves & roasted the roots for food.  Blackfoot applied the plant to wounds to stop bleeding and repair breaks & sprains.  Collected by Meriwether Lewis June 15, 1806 just east of Weippe Prairie and west of Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho.

  • Yucca filamentosa syn. Yucca americana Adam’s Needle, Silk grass Z 4-10

    July – August flowers with translucent white bells, five feet high, out of a clump of spiky evergreen foliage.

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    July – August flowers with translucent white bells, five feet high, out of a clump of spiky evergreen foliage.

    Size: 30" leaves - 5' flower x 3'
    Care: full sun, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant
    Native: New Jersey to Florida
    Wildlife Value: symbiotic relationship with Yucca moth – its only pollinator is the Yucca moth and the Yucca is the only food source for the Yucca moth.
    Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New England and Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.

    IIn 1596 Gerard (1545-1612) named the genus Yucca from the incorrectly identified plant.  He named it Iucca.  Filimentosa  from the Latin “filum” meaning “thread” because of the threads on the leaf margins.  Colonists cut the leaves of Y. filamentosa to make thread.  Indians used the root as an ingredient in bread, to make suds for cleaning and the leaf fibers to make clothes.  For the Cherokee it cured diabetes and skin sores, induced sleep in people and drugged fish for an easier catch. One of earlier No. American plants sent to Europe – grew in Tradescant the Younger’s South Lambeth nursery in 1656.  Both Gerard and Parkinson grew Yucca filamentosa in their personal gardens.  Jefferson planted this in 1794 and called it “beargrass.” Grown at Elgin Botanic Garden, America’s 1st botanic garden, 1811.

  • Zauschneria garetii syn Epilobium canum ssp. garrettii Hummingbird trumpet, California fuchsia, Garrett’s Firechalice Z 5-9

    Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.

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    Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.

    Size: 12” x 18-24”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: Kingston Mountains in CA, Utah, Idaho & Wyoming
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, birds and butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistant

    Collected in Utah’s Big Cottonweed Canyon in 1906 by A.O. Garrett (1870-1948), prolific Utah planthunter.

  • Zinnia grandiflora Rocky Mountain Zinnia SUBSHRUB Z. 4-9

    Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don't prematurely assume it's gone.

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    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don’t prematurely assume it’s gone. Very sweet yellow blooms over long period of time.

    Size: 4-6”x 12-15”
    Care: full sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Colorado & Kansas south to SW U.S.

    The name Zinnia honors German botany professor Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759). This species 1st collected by Edwin James, physician and botanist on the Long Expedition in 1820.

  • Zizia aurea Golden alexanders Z 4-9

    In spring, golden umbels

    $12.75/bareroot

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    Tiny chartreuse-golden flowers, grouped in umbels, spring.  Good cut flower.

    Size: 30"x 24"
    Care: full sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: from New Brunswick south to Florida - west to Texas, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: Primary host for the Missouri Woodland and Black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. Supports over 70 bee species.

    Meskwaki used the root to reduce fevers and the flower stalks to ease headaches.  Collected by late 1700’s.  Good cut flower.