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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

Karen November 20, 2019 0 Comments

Also called fly-trap dogbane and bitterroot, this lanky herbaceous perennial is a member of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that also includes milkweed, bluestar, periwinkle, and oleander. It is native to…

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Plant Profile: Dwarf Mountain Fleabane (Erigeron compositus)

Karen September 18, 2019 0 Comments

Also known as cutleaf daisy and trifid mountain fleabane, this herbaceous rhizomatous perennial is a member of the aster family, Asteraceae, that also includes daisy, sunflower and lettuce. It is…

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Plant Profile: White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

Karen February 27, 2019 0 Comments

Also called snakehead and balmony, this herbaceous perennial is a member of the plantain family, Plantaginaceae, that also includes foxglove, snapdragon, and angelonia. It is native to North America from…

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Plant Profile: Desert Olive (Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens aka F. neomexicana)

Karen September 26, 2018 0 Comments

Desert olive, also known as stretchberry, elbowbush, spring goldengrow, Texas forsythia, and downy forestier, is a thicket-forming deciduous shrub or small tree is native to desert slopes, canyons, woodland edges…

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Plant Profile: New York Aster (Aster novi belgi AKA Symphyotrichum novi-belgi)

Karen April 30, 2018 0 Comments

New York aster, also called Michaelmas daisy, is a herbaceous perennial native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Maine to Georgia where it grows in low areas, moist meadows, thickets,…

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Plant Profile: New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae aka Symphyotrichum novae-angliae )

Karen March 26, 2018 0 Comments

New England aster, also called Michaelmas daisy, is a herbaceous perennial native to much of the US from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast where it grows in a…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Heath Aster (Aster ericoides AKA Symphyotrichum ericoides)

Karen February 26, 2018 0 Comments

Heath aster is a herbaceous perennial native to central and eastern US where it grows in open areas including roadways and railroads. It is a member of the Asteraceae family…

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Plant Profile: Wandflower (Galax urceolata)

Karen December 27, 2017 0 Comments

Also called beetleweed, this evergreen herbaceous perennial is native to southeastern US from where it grows in the forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. It is…

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Plant Profile: Sweet Pepper bush (Clethra alnifolia)

Karen December 2, 2015 0 Comments

This suckering deciduous shrub is native to eastern North America where it may form dense colonies in moist to wet areas in woodlands and along the sea coast from Maine…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Viola labradorica

Karen June 3, 2015 0 Comments

Native to moist woodlands in Canada, northern United States and Greenland, Labrador violet does well even in much of the South. It is a low growing herbaceous perennial and spreads…

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