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Tag Archives: Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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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FERN: Adiantum pedatum (Northern Maidenhair Fern)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Northern Maidenhair Fern is an elegant ornamental plant with striking
black stalks that will not go unnoticed in a shaded border or garden. This
native of moist woods in much of the eastern half of North America* has a
singular growth habit with its fronds held horizontally in the shape of a fan.
Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Tagged Adiantum pedatum, Fern, Northern Maidenhair Fern, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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Word of the Week: Sporangium
Although sporangia, in which spores are produced and stored, are often associated with fungi and seedless plants, such as bryophytes (e.g., mosses) and ferns, they occur in all plants some time during their life cycles. Continue reading
Posted in Illustrated Glossary, Word of the Week, WoW
Tagged Adiantum pedatum, Dryopteris marginalis, megasporangia, megastrobilus, microsporangia, microstrobilus, moss, Osmunda spectabilis, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Polystichum acrostichoides, sori, sporangia, sporangium, sporophyll, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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PERENNIAL: Aquilegia canadensis (Wild or Eastern Red Columbine)
Aquilegia canadensis (Eastern Columbine) is this week’s selection for Tried and True Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Perennial, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Tagged Aquilegia canadensis (Eastern Columbine), Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
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