
Are you looking to add some new species of native plants to your garden this year? Join Extension Master Gardener Elaine Mills as she introduces less familiar native perennials, including many species which have not been covered in earlier presentations, such as diminutive Spring Beauty, shrub-like American Spikenard, showy Turk’s-cap Lily, exotic Rattlesnake Master, and dramatic Culver’s-root. She will share photos to illustrate their unique characteristics and usage in landscapes as well as care tips and details on their support of pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.
Video of Presentation
Resources
Class Handout – pdf
- American Spikenard (Aralia racemosa)
- Aromatic Aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
- Blazing Star (Liatris spicata)
- Blue Flag (Iris versicolor & Iris virginica)
- Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago caesia)
- Clustered Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)
- Culver’s-root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
- Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
- Eastern Blue-star (Amsonia tabernaemontana)
- Eastern Solomon’s-plume (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
- Foxglove Beard-tongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- Goat’s-beard (Aruncus dioicus)
- Golden-alexanders (Zizia aurea)
- Green-and-Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum)
- Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans)
- Rattlesnake-master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
- Robin’s Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)
- Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata)
- Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
- Swamp Rose-mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
- Turk’s-cap Lily (Lilium superbum)Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Addendum with answers to questions raised in the presentation – pdf

