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Native Herbaceous Perennials and Ferns for Shade Gardens
Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Rd ● Alexandria ● VA 22312 Phone: 703-642-5173 ● TTY: 703-803-3354 www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspring NATIVE HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS AND FERNS FOR � SHADE GARDENS IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA � Native plants are species that existed in Virginia before Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607. They are uniquely adapted to local conditions. Native plants provide food and shelter for a myriad of birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Best of all, gardeners can feel the satisfaction of preserving a part of our natural heritage while enjoying the beauty of native plants in the garden. Hardy herbaceous perennials form little or no woody tissue and live for several years. Some of these plants are short-lived and may live only three years, such as wild columbine, while others can live for decades. They are a group of plants that gardeners are very passionate about because of their lovely foliage and flowers, as well as their wide variety of textures, forms, and heights. Most of these plants are deciduous and die back to the ground in the winter. Ferns, in contrast, have no flowers but grace our gardens with their beautiful foliage. Herbaceous perennials and ferns are a joy to garden with because they are easily moved to create new design combinations and provide an ever-changing scene in the garden. They are appropriate for a wide range of shade gardens, from more formal gardens to naturalistic woodland gardens. The following are useful definitions: Cultivar (cv.) – a cultivated variety designated by single quotes, such as ‘Autumn Bride’. -
The Vascular Plants of Massachusetts
The Vascular Plants of Massachusetts: The Vascular Plants of Massachusetts: A County Checklist • First Revision Melissa Dow Cullina, Bryan Connolly, Bruce Sorrie and Paul Somers Somers Bruce Sorrie and Paul Connolly, Bryan Cullina, Melissa Dow Revision • First A County Checklist Plants of Massachusetts: Vascular The A County Checklist First Revision Melissa Dow Cullina, Bryan Connolly, Bruce Sorrie and Paul Somers Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program The Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP), part of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, is one of the programs forming the Natural Heritage network. NHESP is responsible for the conservation and protection of hundreds of species that are not hunted, fished, trapped, or commercially harvested in the state. The Program's highest priority is protecting the 176 species of vertebrate and invertebrate animals and 259 species of native plants that are officially listed as Endangered, Threatened or of Special Concern in Massachusetts. Endangered species conservation in Massachusetts depends on you! A major source of funding for the protection of rare and endangered species comes from voluntary donations on state income tax forms. Contributions go to the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Fund, which provides a portion of the operating budget for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program. NHESP protects rare species through biological inventory, -
Easy-To-Grow Florida Wildflowers
Easy-to-grow Florida wildflowers Help create pollinator These wildflowers are adapted to an average moderate to dry garden in all regions pathways of Florida. They grow best with 6 or more hours of sun and will thrive without regular Florida’s native wildflowers irrigation once established. and plants are essential to the pollinators we depend on. Asclepias tuberosa Butterflyweed Orange / red S/SS Landscaping with wildflowers Berlandiera spp Greeneyes Yellow S/SS can create pollinator pathways Carphephorus corymbosus Chaffhead / Paintbrush Purple SS/F through urban areas, helping Chamaecrista fasciculata Partridge pea Yellow SS/F bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to thrive. Coreopsis leavenworthii Leavenworth’s tickseed Yellow S/SS Gaillardia pulchella Blanketflower Red / yellow SS/F What you can do Gaura angustifolia Southern beeblossom Pink S/SS/F • Landscape with Florida native Helianthus debilis Beach sunflower Yellow SS/F wildflowers and plants. Liatris spp Blazing star Purple SS/F • Stop using pesticides, Monarda punctata Spotted horsemint White SS/F which harm bees and other beneficial insects. Penstemon multiflorus White beardtongue White SS • Stop using fertilizer, which Pityopsis graminifolia Silkgrass Yellow SS/F harms waterways and lakes. Rudbeckia hirta Black-eyed Susan Yellow SS/S • Ask your county to preserve Ruellia caroliniensis Wild petunia Blue S/SS roadside wildflowers. Salvia coccinea Tropical sage Red S/SS/F • Work with lawmakers to Solidago sempervirens Seaside goldenrod Yellow SS/F preserve and conserve -
Black-Eyed Susan - Rudbeckia Fulgida Var
Black-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘Goldsturm’ A favorite summertime flower, the Black-eyed Susan, with its bright, golden-yellow flowers, produces a ‘gold storm’ of blooms in gardens everywhere. Selected by the Perennial Plant Association as the 1999 Perennial of the Year, this rudbeckia has been acclaimed internationally as one of the most popular perennials for the past fifty years. produces masses of golden color all summer long. It can be one of the most important flowers in the perennial garden. A member of the huge aster or composite family, they typically stay in a basil rosette their first year. Then during the second year produce upright, branching stems with orange-gold flowers. The rough- textured leaves are diamond shaped, and the plant produces erect, bristly stems about thirty-six inches tall. It’s significant compact habit produces long-blooming flowers, and is low maintenance. This spectacular perennial tolerates poor clay soils and mild droughts, but grows best in well- drained and moist soil with regular watering. However, it will not tolerate soggy soils. It is a rhizomatous perennial (spreads by rhizomes, making large clumps) with crowded, branching stems. ‘Goldsturm’ performs as well in the high heat and humidity of Houston, as well as tolerate the arid, cold winters of Amarillo. This Black-eyed Susan is at home in the naturalized, semi-wild garden, used as a border, or even a non-invasive ground cover with full sun to light shade. Plants have minimal blooms the first season unless they undergo cold treatment (vernalization). The long, strong stems make this orange coneflower ideal for cutting. -
Winter 2014-2015 (22:3) (PDF)
Contents NATIVE NOTES Page Fern workshop 1-2 Wavey-leaf basket Grass 3 Names Cacalia 4 Trip Report Sandstone Falls 5 Kate’s Mountain Clover* Trip Report Brush Creek Falls 6 Thank yous memorial 7 WEST VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY NEWSLETTER News of WVNPS 8 VOLUME 22:3 WINTER 2014-15 Events, Dues Form 9 Judy Dumke-Editor: [email protected] Phone 740-894-6859 Magnoliales 10 e e e visit us at www.wvnps.org e e e . Fern Workshop University of Charleston Charleston WV January 17 2015, bad weather date January 24 2015 If you have thought about ferns, looked at them, puzzled over them or just want to know more about them join the WVNPS in Charleston for a workshop led by Mark Watson of the University of Charleston. The session will start at 10 A.M. with a scheduled end point by 12:30 P.M. A board meeting will follow. The sessions will be held in the Clay Tower Building (CTB) room 513, which is the botany lab. If you have any pressed specimens to share, or to ask about, be sure to bring them with as much information as you have on the location and habitat. Even photographs of ferns might be of interest for the session. If you have a hand lens that you favor bring it along as well. DIRECTIONS From the North: Travel I-77 South or 1-79 South into Charleston. Follow the signs to I-64 West. Take Oakwood Road Exit 58A and follow the signs to Route 61 South (MacCorkle Ave.). -
Black-Eyed Susan Habitat and Range: Meadows, Fields, Roadsides, Rudbeckia Hirta L
Lanceolate to oblong, upper leaves sessile, lower ones Wildflower in Focus sometimes petioled, 1 1/2 - 6 1/2" long. Height and Growth Habit: 1 - 3'. Usually single- Text by Melanie Choukas-Bradley stalked, but some plants growing along the roadsides Artwork by Tina Thieme Brown develop multiple stalks after they have been mowed. Black-eyed Susan Habitat and Range: Meadows, fields, roadsides, Rudbeckia hirta L. clearings; most of U.S., southern Canada and into Aster or Daisy Family (Asteraceae) Mexico. Herbal Lore: According to Steven Foster and James Duke (Peterson Field Guides' Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America), American Indians used the root tea to treat colds and expel worms and externally as a wash for swelling, body sores and snakebite. They report that the root juice was used for earaches. They also warn that some people's skin is sensitive to the touch of the plant. Similar Species: Three-lobed (or thin-leaved) coneflower (R. triloba) has a branched growth habit and its lowest leaves are usually three-lobed. (Note: Black-eyed Susan may be branching after it has been mowed.) Orange coneflower (R. fulgida) blooms in the Piedmont and mountains from late summer through fall. It has slightly smaller flower heads than black- eyed Susan. According to Maryland Native Plant Society President Cris Fleming, both species are on the watch list in Maryland and are unlikely to be seen. Blooming Time: June - October. Locations: Abundant in fields, meadows, clearings and roadsides throughout the state. The black-eyed Susan is Maryland’s state flower Wildflower in Focus text adapted from An Illustrated and one of our most striking summer wildflowers, Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and blooming in meadows and fields and along Trees: 350 Plants Observed at Sugarloaf Mountain, roadsides throughout the state. -
Comparative Anatomy of Ovules in Galinsoga, Solidago and Ratibida (Asteraceae)
ACTA BIOLOGICA CRACOVIENSIA Series Botanica 56/2: 115–125, 2014 DOI: 10.2478/abcsb-2014-0024 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF OVULES IN GALINSOGA, SOLIDAGO AND RATIBIDA (ASTERACEAE) JOLANTA KOLCZYK1, PIOTR STOLARCZYK2, AND BARTOSZ J. PŁACHNO1* 1Department of Plant Cytology and Embryology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Cracow, Poland 2Unit of Botany and Plant Physiology, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture in Cracow, Al. 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Cracow, Poland Manuscript submitted September 9, 2014; revision accepted October 22, 2014 Many Asteraceae species have been introduced into horticulture as ornamental or interesting exotic plants. Some of them, including Solidago and Galinsoga, are now aggressive weeds; others such as Ratibida are not. Special modifications of the ovule tissue and the occurrence of nutritive tissue have been described in several Asteraceae species, including invasive Taraxacum species. This study examined whether such modifications might also occur in other genera. We found that the three genera examined – Galinsoga (G. quadriradiata), Solidago (S. canadensis, S. rigida, S. gigantea) and Ratibida (R. pinnata) – differed in their nutritive tissue structure. According to changes in the integument, we identified three types of ovules in Asteraceae: “Taraxacum” type (recorded in Taraxacum, Bellis, Solidago, Chondrilla), with well-developed nutritive tissue having very swollen cell walls of spongy structure; “Galinsoga” type (in Galinsoga), in which the nutritive tissue cells have more cyto- plasm and thicker cell walls than the other integument parenchyma cells, and in which the most prominent character of the nutritive tissue cells is well-developed rough ER; and “Ratibida” type (in Ratibida), in which the nutritive tissue is only slightly developed and consists of large highly vacuolated cells. -
Rare Plants of Louisiana
Rare Plants of Louisiana Agalinis filicaulis - purple false-foxglove Figwort Family (Scrophulariaceae) Rarity Rank: S2/G3G4 Range: AL, FL, LA, MS Recognition: Photo by John Hays • Short annual, 10 to 50 cm tall, with stems finely wiry, spindly • Stems simple to few-branched • Leaves opposite, scale-like, about 1mm long, barely perceptible to the unaided eye • Flowers few in number, mostly born singly or in pairs from the highest node of a branchlet • Pedicels filiform, 5 to 10 mm long, subtending bracts minute • Calyx 2 mm long, lobes short-deltoid, with broad shallow sinuses between lobes • Corolla lavender-pink, without lines or spots within, 10 to 13 mm long, exterior glabrous • Capsule globe-like, nearly half exerted from calyx Flowering Time: September to November Light Requirement: Full sun to partial shade Wetland Indicator Status: FAC – similar likelihood of occurring in both wetlands and non-wetlands Habitat: Wet longleaf pine flatwoods savannahs and hillside seepage bogs. Threats: • Conversion of habitat to pine plantations (bedding, dense tree spacing, etc.) • Residential and commercial development • Fire exclusion, allowing invasion of habitat by woody species • Hydrologic alteration directly (e.g. ditching) and indirectly (fire suppression allowing higher tree density and more large-diameter trees) Beneficial Management Practices: • Thinning (during very dry periods), targeting off-site species such as loblolly and slash pines for removal • Prescribed burning, establishing a regime consisting of mostly growing season (May-June) burns Rare Plants of Louisiana LA River Basins: Pearl, Pontchartrain, Mermentau, Calcasieu, Sabine Side view of flower. Photo by John Hays References: Godfrey, R. K. and J. W. Wooten. -
Drooping Coneflower Ratibida Pinnata
drooping coneflower Ratibida pinnata Kingdom: Plantae FEATURES Division: Magnoliophyta The drooping coneflower is also known as the gray- Class: Magnoliopsida headed coneflower, yellow coneflower, weary Susan Order: Asterales or yellow prairie coneflower. This perennial herb’s leaves are deeply divided into lobes. The lower Family: Asteraceae leaves are pinnately compound with three to seven ILLINOIS STATUS leaflets. The upper leaves are sessile or nearly so. Leaves and stems are covered with hairlike common, native structures. Both ray and disk flowers are present in the flower head. The yellow, ray flowers number four to 10. Ray flowers are oriented downward from the center. The dull-colored or gray-green disk in the center of the flower head is twice as tall as it is wide. The one-seeded fruit is dry and hard. The drooping coneflower may attain a height of two to four feet. BEHAVIORS The drooping coneflower may commonly be found in the northern three-fourths of Illinois. It sometimes is seen in the remainder of the state, too. This plant grows in moist prairies. Flowers are produced from July through August. In its early growth stages, the drooping coneflower is an important food source for grazing animals of the prairie. Insects are the primary pollination agent of ILLINOIS RANGE the flowers. © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. 2020. Biodiversity of Illinois. Unless otherwise noted, photos and images © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. plants and flower heads © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. 2020. Biodiversity of Illinois. Unless otherwise noted, photos and images © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Aquatic Habitats none Woodland Habitats none Prairie and Edge Habitats black soil prairie © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. -
Rudbeckia Fulgida (Orange Coneflower) Botanical Bytes by Bruner by Gregory Bruner
Rudbeckia fulgida (Orange Coneflower) Botanical Bytes by Bruner By Gregory Bruner Foliage Height: 18-36” Foliage Width: 18-36” Flower Height: 24-36” Foliage Color: Green Flower Color: Yellow USDA Hardiness: 3-8 Moisture: Average Light: Full Sun – Part Sun Rudbeckia fulgida is native to most of the Eastern United States. Cold hardiness is not an issue with this leafy family member, allowing it to be happy down to zone 3. The small rosette of leaves is evergreen but not showy enough to make much of a display during the winter. This species of Rudbeckia is named for Olof Rudbeck the Elder, a Swedish botanist from the 17th century. If we translate fulgida from Latin, it means shining, gleaming, or glittering. These are wonderful adjectives to describe the glowing show of the flowers, which starts mid summer and lasts through fall. Because the Rudbeckia family has many visually similar members, common names can get a bit confusing. Rudbeckia fulgida is often called Black-eyed Susan like its cousin Rudbeckia hirta, but Orange Coneflower is a better description because its yellow flower petals have a bit more orange in them than hirta’s. This member of the Rudbeckia family is very adaptable, allowing it to tolerate a wide range of soil types. The masses of glowing Rudbeckia seen around town and in yards are usually the cultivar “Goldsturm”. Goldsturm was named perennial of the year in 1999 and since then has proven itself to be a garden mainstay. It thrives in well-drained average garden situations that possess partial to full sun conditions. -
Clasping Coneflower (Dracopis Amplexicaulis)
Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Guide Clasping coneflower Dracopis amplexicaulis (Vahl) Cass Plant Symbol = DRAM Common Names: Clasping-leaf coneflower, coneflower (Diggs et. al, 1999) Scientific Names: (Synonym) Rudbeckia amplexicaulis Vahl. (Diggs et. al, 1999) Description General: Clasping coneflower is a native, warm season, annual forb in the Asteraceae family (Missouri Botanical Garden, 2019). Clasping coneflower grows 12 to 28 inches (30 to 71 cm) tall. It arises from a solitary stem which branches out about half way up the plant (Fig.1). The alternately arranged, oblong, glaucous leaves are 1.75 to 4 inches (4 to 10 cm) long. The leaves, at their base, wrap around the stems (Fig.1). This distinctive leaf characteristic is the origin of the species name derived from two Latin words; amplexus meaning ‘encircling’ and caulis meaning ‘stem’. Clasping coneflower blooms in late spring and early Figure 1. Clasping coneflower in bloom. Photo: East summer. The yellow ray flowers or “petals” are similar in appearance to Texas Plant Materials Center, Nacogdoches, TX black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) and droop as the flowers mature. The flowerhead is up to two inches in diameter with a black center cone 0.5 to 1.25 inches (1 to 3 cm) high. (Ajilvsgi, 2003). The seeds are small, approximately 5/64” long (2 mm), elliptical in shape, with a wrinkled appearance (USDA NRCS, 2019) (Fig.2). Distribution: Clasping coneflower is the only member of the Dracopis genus in North America (Diggs et al., 1999). It is found in the southeastern United States from Georgia to Texas and north into Missouri and Kansas (Missouri Botanical Garden, 2019). -
List of Plants for Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Plant Checklist DRAFT as of 29 November 2005 FERNS AND FERN ALLIES Equisetaceae (Horsetail Family) Vascular Plant Equisetales Equisetaceae Equisetum arvense Present in Park Rare Native Field horsetail Vascular Plant Equisetales Equisetaceae Equisetum laevigatum Present in Park Unknown Native Scouring-rush Polypodiaceae (Fern Family) Vascular Plant Polypodiales Dryopteridaceae Cystopteris fragilis Present in Park Uncommon Native Brittle bladderfern Vascular Plant Polypodiales Dryopteridaceae Woodsia oregana Present in Park Uncommon Native Oregon woodsia Pteridaceae (Maidenhair Fern Family) Vascular Plant Polypodiales Pteridaceae Argyrochosma fendleri Present in Park Unknown Native Zigzag fern Vascular Plant Polypodiales Pteridaceae Cheilanthes feei Present in Park Uncommon Native Slender lip fern Vascular Plant Polypodiales Pteridaceae Cryptogramma acrostichoides Present in Park Unknown Native American rockbrake Selaginellaceae (Spikemoss Family) Vascular Plant Selaginellales Selaginellaceae Selaginella densa Present in Park Rare Native Lesser spikemoss Vascular Plant Selaginellales Selaginellaceae Selaginella weatherbiana Present in Park Unknown Native Weatherby's clubmoss CONIFERS Cupressaceae (Cypress family) Vascular Plant Pinales Cupressaceae Juniperus scopulorum Present in Park Unknown Native Rocky Mountain juniper Pinaceae (Pine Family) Vascular Plant Pinales Pinaceae Abies concolor var. concolor Present in Park Rare Native White fir Vascular Plant Pinales Pinaceae Abies lasiocarpa Present