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 2010            

           

Actea

pachypoda  

White Baneberry

Adiantum

pedatum

Maidenhair Fern

Anemone

sylvestris

Snowdrop Anemone

Aquilegia

canadense

Red Colombine

Aralia 

racemosa

American Spikenard

Arisaema

Various Species 

Jack in the Pulpit

Asarum

canadense

Native Ginger

Asarum

european

European Ginger

Asclepias

incarnata  

Showy Milkweed

Aster  

 n.a.                                            

Pink and Violet

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

Erythronium

‘Pagoda’

Trout Lily  (cultivated)

Eupatorium

maculatum "Atropurpureum" 

Joe-Pye Weed

Eupatorium

rugosum 

White Snakeroot

Geum

rivale                                         

Water Avens

Hepatica *

acutiloba

Sharp Lobed Hepatica

Hieracium

aurantiacum

Orange Hawkweed

Iris

pseudacorus

Yellow Flag Iris

Iris

 versicolour

Blue Flag Iris

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 Solomon Seal

Streptopus

roseus

Rosy Twisted Stalk

Stylophorum

diphylla 

Wood Poppy

Symplocarpus

foetidus

Eastern Skunk Cabbage

Thyme

serpyllum

PEI Thyme

Tiarella

cordifolia

Foamflower

Trientalis

borealis

Star Flower

Trillium

erectum

Purple Trillium

Trillium

grandifolia

White Trillium

Trillium

sessile  Luteum                        

Yellow Trillium

Trillium

undulatum

Painted Trillium

Univularia

grandiflora

Merrybells

Viola

 

Blue Violets

Viola  

 

White Violets

                         

* Not available this year (Maybe in the fall 2010)  

           

See also Ferns    

     

 

 

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