Natives

 

Most plants are native to somewhere.  Even the parents of hybridized perennials (even annuals) have a home.  The interest of native gardening is growing, whether you want a few trilliums for your woodland garden or want to restore gardens to their natural state.  Native gardening probably is more associated with the woodland plants such as trilliums, ginger, jack-in-the-pulpit, hepatica, bloodroot, ferns, ect…  but don’t forget the meadow plants;  lupines, asters, coneflowers, joe-pye-weed, butterfly weed, ect…

 

Bloodroot

 

Cinnamon Fern

Uvularia

Ragged Robin

     

Prices range from $3.50 - $12.00 depending on the plant with most in the $5 - $8 range.  Cypridpedium is $30.00.    

     

This is a native list, but it does not mean everything is native to Nova Scotia.  Some plants are in the list by association such as some species of Arisaema, Eurythroniun and Trillium.   

 

     

Native Plant list 2009 (updated May 5th)         

           

     

Actea              pachypoda                               White Baneberry

Actea              rubra                                         Red Baneberry

Adiantum        pedatum                                   Maidenhair Fern

Anemone        sylvestris

Aralia              racemosa

Arisaema        amurense                                  Jack in the Pulpit

Arisaema        sikokianum

Arisaema        triphyllum

Asarum           canadense                                 Native Ginger

Asarum           european                                   European Ginger

Asclepias        incarnata                                   Showy Milkweed

Aster               n.a.                                             Pink

Athyrium         filix-femina                                Lady Fern

Chelone          glabra                                        White Turtle Head

Clintonia         borealis                                      Blue Bead Lily

Cornus            canadensis                                 Bunchberry

Cypridpedium calceolus var pubenscens         Yellow Lady Slipper

Dicentra          cucullaria                                   Dutchman’s Breeches

Erythronium   americanum                               Trout lily

Eupatorium     maculatum "Atropurpureum"  Joe-Pye Weed

Eupatorium     rugosum                                     White Snakeroot

Geum              rivale                                          Water Avens

Hieracium       aurantiacum                               Orange Hawkweed

Iris                  Yellow Flag

Iris                  versicolour

Lilium              canadense                                  Canada lily

Lychnis           flos-cuculi                                  Ragged Robin

Maianthemum canadense                                Wild lily of the Valley

Mertensia       virginica                                     Virginia Bluebells

Podophyllum   peltatuim                                    Mayapple

Polygonatum   biflorum                                      Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum   falcatum                                     Dwarf  Solomon’s Seal

Polygonatum   odoratum "variegatum"           Variegated Solomon’s Seal

Ranunculus     acris var. multiplicipetalus        Dbl flowering Buttercup

Sanguinaria    canadensis                                 Bloodroot

Sisyrinchium   augustifolium                             Blue eyed Grass

Smilacina        racemosa                                   False Solomonseal

Streptopus      roseus                                        Rosy Twisted Stalk

Stylophorum   diphylla                                      Wood Ppoppy

Sumplocarpus foetidus                                      Skunk Cabbage

Thyme                                                                Native to PEI

Tiarella           cordifolia                                    Foamflower

Trientalis        borealis                                      Star Flower

Trillium           erectum                                      Purple Trillium

Trillium           grandifolia                                 White Trillium

Trillium           undulatum                                  Painted Trillium

Univularia       grandiflora                                Merrybells

Viola                                                                  Blue Violets

Viola                                                                 White Violets

     

           

See also Ferns    

     

 

 

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