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PERENNIAL: Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This stately milkweed is at home in moist habitats across much of the United States.* It has flat terminal clusters of showy pale pink to mauve flowers in summer, succeeded by interesting fruit (follicles) that split to release seeds on silken parachutes. Learn more . . . Continue reading
Word of the Week: Follicle
If you grow milkweed to attract monarch butterflies to your garden, then you know that they also attract milkweed bugs. You often find these bright red and black insects massed on the milkweed “pods” trying to gain access to the seeds within. But, do you know that the fruit of the milkweed is not actually a pod but rather a follicle? Continue reading
Posted in Illustrated Glossary, Word of the Week, WoW
Tagged Aggregate Fruit, Amsonia tabernaemontana, Apocynum cannabinum, Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, Baptisia australis, etaerio, follicle, Magnolia virginiana, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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Word of the Week: Inflorescence
Some plants produce solitary flowers–one flower per stem. Others produce a cluster of flowers or inflorescences. They are grouped by the arrangement of flowers on the stalk and by the sequence of anthesis, or opening of the flower bud, which occurs in two forms, determinate and indeterminate. Continue reading
Posted in Illustrated Glossary, Word of the Week, WoW
Tagged Actaea racemosa, aments, Aralia racemosa, Asclepias incarnata, Betula nigra, capitulums, catkins, corymbs, cymes, determinate, heads, indeterminate, inflorescence, Liatrus spicata, Mertensia virginica, panicles, Penstemon digitalis, Quercus montana, racemes, Rudbeckia maxima, spadices, Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink), spikes, thyrses, umbels, Verbena hastata, Zizia aurea
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Taking a Closer Look at Roadside Wildflowers
Many of the wildflowers seen along local roadways or on day-trips to the beach or mountains (those yellow, orange, purple or pink blurs) can be viewed close-up in the Glencarlyn Library Community Garden in Arlington, VA. Continue reading
Posted in Glencarlyn Library Community Garden
Tagged Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias syriaca, Asclepias tuberosa, black-eyed Susans, blazing star, brown-eyed Susans, Butterfly Weed, common milkweed, dandelion, Eutrochium dubium, Heath aster, Hemerocallis fulva, ironweed, Joe-Pye Weed, liatris, liatris spicata, mullein, New England Aster, Orange Coneflower, orange daylily, rudbeckia fulgida, Rudbeckia triloba, Solidago altissima, Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’, Swamp Milkweed, Symphyotrichum ericoides, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Tall goldenrod, Taraxacum officinale, Verbascum thapsus, Vernonia noveboracensis
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