The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos as well as additional resources on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month’s topic.
While most of the Glencarlyn videos have a science-based, instructional focus, the series on “Beautiful Native Plants” was created to simply celebrate the ornamental characteristics of many species that are either native to the Mid-Atlantic region or are environmentally friendly and grow well here. Based on a personal library of still photos and a few video clips, each presentation introduces viewers to around a dozen plants, providing scientific and common names and illustrating their full forms as well as details of buds, flowers, and foliage through the seasons. The videos are designed to be viewed with audio on to provide a background of music and the sounds of nature. You are invited to fall in love with beautiful native plants.
Beautiful Native Plants: Fall-Blooming Perennials
Featured Plants – Tried & True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
- Chelone glabra (White Turtlehead) – Jul-Oct
- Chelone lyonii (Pink Turtlehead) – Jul-Sept
- Eutrochium dubium (Coastal Plain Joe-pye-weed) – Jul-Oct
- Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower) – Jul-Oct
- Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) – Aug-Oct
- Monarda punctata (Spotted Beebalm) – Jul-Oct
- Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox) – Jul-Oct
- Rudbeckia fulgida (Orange Coneflower) – Jul-Oct
- Solidago rugosa (Rough-stemmed Goldenrod) – Aug-Nov
- Symphyotrichum cordifolium (Blue Wood Aster) – Aug-Oct
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster) – Aug-Oct
- Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain) – Jun-Oct
- Vernonia noveboracensis (New York Ironweed) – Aug-Oct
Related Illustrated Glossary Terms
• bilabiate – [ bahy-LET-bee-it, -eyt ] adjective: having two lips
• lanceolate – [ LAN(t)-see-uh-late ] adjective: lance-shaped; specifically in the case of leaves, longer than wide, tapering to a point at the apex and possibly to the base, wider below the middle; sometimes widest at the base
• nutlet – [ NUHT-lit ] noun: a small nut, thick-walled achene, or stone of a drupe; one-seeded portion of the fruit of some members of the Boraginaceae, Lamiaceae, or Verbenaceae
• panicle – [ pan-i-KUHL ] noun: a compound raceme; any loose, diversely branching flower cluster.
• pappus – [ PAP–uhs ] noun, plural pappi [ PAP–ahy ]: an appendage of the cypsela (fruit) of the Asteraceae consisting of one to many bristles, awns, scales, setae, or coronas that assists in seed dispersal
• rosette – [ roh-ZET ] noun: a circular arrangement of leaves or other organs
