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Achillea millifolium 'Terracotta'
Common Name: Terracotta Yarrow
Native to Europe and Asia
Among the flowering plants you will find few that are as tough as yarrow. This trouper tolerates drought & commonly appears in inhospitable disturbed sites. Foliage, however, looks delicate and ferny. Bloom time is long and flowers attract …
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Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
Common Name: Blue Fortune anise hyssop
Native to North America (cultivar)
Fragrant foliage deters deer and rabbits, while the lavender blue flowers attract pollinators, including butterflies and hummingbirds, all summer long. Prefers well drained moist soil. Medium salt tolerance.
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Agastache foeniculum
Common Name: Anise Hyssop
Native to North America
An upright perennial with light green angular stems. Plants are clothed in lovely anise scented leaves. In summer, lavender to purple flower spikes draw a crowd of bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Plants thrive in sunny well dr…
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Alchemilla mollis
Common Name: lady's mantle
Native to Eastern Carpathians, Caucasus
Quite adaptable, growing in full sun to part shade, but can tolerate full shade. Morning dew and rain will bead up on the foliage, which is very attractive. Chartreuse flowers appear in June, which may be cut or dried. Deer and…
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Allium 'Millenium'
Common Name: Millenium ornamental onion
unknown parentage
Easily grown dry to medium moisture soils that must be well-drained. Prefers full sun, but will succeed in part shade. Tolerates a wide range of soils, Non-invasive due to low fertility. Foliage grows 6-8" tall, with flower stems r…
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Allium cernuum
Common Name: Nodding onion
Native to North America
Nodding pink flowers. Use in woods' edge, meadows, average garden soil.
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Allium lusitanicum 'Summer Beauty'
Common Name: Summer Beauty ornamental onion
Native to Europe (cultivar)
A sterile cultivar, and long-blooming ornamental onion that produces showy lavender flowers from July to August. The globe-shaped flowers sit above strap-like foliage that remains a shiny deep green throughout the growing season. Leaves grow up to …
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Amsonia illustris
Common Name: Shining bluestar
Native to North America
Light blue star flowers in late spring; excellent choice for a border or naturalized meadow.
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Amsonia tabernaemontana
Common Name: Bluestar, Blue Dogbane
Native to North America
Prefers well-drained soil. Compact, erect clump, with clusters of pale blue flowers.
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Amsonia tabernaemontana v. salicifolia
Common Name: Willow leaf Bluestar
Native to North America
A narrow leaf variety of the above. Slightly taller, and a bit happier in the partial shade, this long lived perennial develops lovely yellow fall color.
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Amsonia tabernaemontani 'Grande'
Common Name: Bluestar
Native to North America (cultivar)
Amsonia 'Grande' is a vigorous selection of the species featuring larger blooms and clean, shiny foliage. An excellent selection.
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Amsonia tabernemontana 'Blue Ice'
Common Name: Dwarf blue star
Native to North America (cultivar)
Dwarf selection of our native blue star, long blooming, with good with good fall color.
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Andropogon ternarius
Common Name: splitbeard bluestem
Splitbeard Bluestem is a native ornamental warm-season perennial bunchgrass. It grows up to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Native to meadows, plains and open woodlands in well drained or sandy soils with low fertility. Prefers full sun…
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Aquilegia canadensis
Common Name: Wild columbine
Native to North America
One of the earliest of wildflowers to bloom, attracts hummingbirds, easy to grow.
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Asclepias incarnata
Common Name: Swamp milkweed
Native to North America
Food source for monarch butterfly larvae, does well in any open, moist location.
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Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet'
Common Name: Swamp milkweed
Native to North America (cultivar)
White, more compact selection of the species. Good food source for monarch butterfly larvae.
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Asclepias tuberosa
Common Name: Butterfly weed
Native to North America
Bright orange, butterfly magnet, superbly drought tolerant as it is NOT a wetland plant
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Asclepias verticillata
Common Name: Eastern whorled milkweed
Native to North America
Fine foliage on un-branched stems. Creamy white flowers. Larval host and nectar source for the monarch butterfly.
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Aster azureus
Common Name: skyblue aster
Native to North America
Extremely drought tolerant aster excellent for dry rocky or shallow soil. Attractive to butterflies and pollinators. Self seeds and spreads by rhizomes making it perfect for erosion control.
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Aster cordifolius
Common Name: Blue wood aster
Native to North America
Good naturalizer for woods' edge and shade, does well in dry conditions. Lovely arching flower stems brighten up the shade.
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Aster cordifolius 'Little Carlow'
Common Name: Little Carlow blue wood aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
An attractive upright aster cultivar. Heart shaped leaves form at ground level and provide a nice groundcover in spring. In early to mid-fall myriads of daisy-like asters cover the plant. Flowers are a bright violet-blue with yellow centers and ar…
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Aster divaricatus
Common Name: White wood aster
Native to North America
Good native groundcover for woods' edge and shade, does well in dry conditions. Provides a mass of small white flowers to usher in the fall season.
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Aster laevis
Common Name: Smooth blue aster
Native to North America
Early blooming, tolerant of a variety of conditions.
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Aster lateriflorus
Common Name: Calico aster
Native to North America
Aster lateriflorus is a shrubby aster with light green foliage. In late summer plants produce myriads of starry pinkish daisies with rosy centers. This aster is tough and adaptable prospering in sun or part shade and in moist o…
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Aster lateriflorus 'Lady in Black'
Common Name: Calico aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
Deep plum foliage with hundreds of small daisy flowers.
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Aster macrophyllus
Common Name: Big leaf aster
Native to North America
Vigorously growing aster has large heart shaped basal leaves, can form dense carpets.
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Aster macrophyllus 'Twilight'
Common Name: Twilight big leaf aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’ is a naturally occuring cross between Aster spectabilis and Aster macrophylla and begins the growing season as a rosette of large heart shaped basal leaves. For a month o…
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Aster novae-angliae
Common Name: New England aster
Native to North America
Lovely tall aster of wet spaces; for me its blooming means fall is coming.
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Aster novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'
Common Name: New England aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
A compact form with deep purple flowers, makes a lovely addition to the garden.
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Aster oblongifolius
Common Name: Aromatic aster
Native to North America
This species tolerates drought, poor soils, and the heat. Aromatic foliage.
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Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies'
Common Name: Aromatic aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
Compound mound, with bluer flowers than Raydons.
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Aster oblongifolius 'Raydons Favorite'
Common Name: Aromatic aster
Native to North America (cultivar)
One of the best aster selections out there, flowers early and long, neatly mounded.
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Aster spectabilis
Common Name: Showy aster
Native to North America
Bright violet single, graceful blooms encircle a yellow disk near the top of arching stem with grass green foliage. Found along pond's edge, stream banks, and open meadows. Perfectly simple, and simply perfect. Shared with us by our friend Jas…
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Aster umbellatus
Common Name: Flat topped white aster
Native to North America
Flat or occasionally dome-shaped white flower clusters. Important host for many butterfly species.
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Astilbe chinesis 'Purpurkerze'
Common Name: Purple Candles false spirea
Native to Asia (cultivar)
Tall upright purple plumes flower later in the season than other Astilbe's, from June to July. Flowers are long and striking, like tall candles of color in the ornamental garden. Add architectural interest in the Fall and Winter garden.
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