Native Plants at The Perennial Farm
Cultivar: is a horticultural variety or race that has originated and persisted under cultivation, and of botanical or horticultural importance, requiring a name. Indicated by single quotation marks.
Native: indicating a plant that grows in a particular region; not introduced or naturalized.
Naturalized: The permanent establishment of a foreign plant in a native flora. Escaped from gardens or brought by pioneers etc.
PERENNIALS
Achillea millefolium (naturalized in North America)
Achillea ‘Fireland’, ‘Oertel’s Rose’, ‘Paprika’, ‘Terra Cotta’-(garden origin)
Achillea ‘Moonshine’-(garden origin)
Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ (a cross of United States native A. foeniculum x Korean A. rugosa from Gert Fortgens of Arboretum Trompenburg in Holland)
Amsonia hubrichtii (found by Leslie Hubrecht in 1942 in Arkansas, native to southeastern USA)
Amsonia tabernaemontana ‘Blue Ice’ (New Jersey west to Kansas, south to Louisiana)
Aquilegia canadensis ‘Little Lanterns’ (Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Minnesota and Kansas)
Asclepias incarnata (Eastern US, east of the Rockies, Nova Scotia to New Mexico, flood plains and wet meadows.)
Asclepias tuberosa (dry fields, roadsides and shale barrens east of the Rockies, South Dakota to Florida, New Hampshire to northern Mexico)
Aster divaricatus (mountain woodlands from New Hampshire to Ohio, south to northern Georgia and eastern Alabama)
Aster novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’ (introduced by Dr. Richard Lighty-Vermont to Alabama, west to North Dakota, Wyoming and New Mexico)
Aster dumosus (novi-belgii) ‘Wood’s Blue’, ‘Wood’s Pink’, and ‘Wood’s Purple’ (field and meadows from Florida to Texas, and north to maine, Ontario and Ilinois)
Baptisia alba (dry open woods and clearings, Virginia to Florida)
Baptisia australis (woodland borders from Pennsylvania and Indiana south to Georgia and Tennesee)
Baptisia ‘Purple Smoke’ (discovered at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens and introduced by Niche Gardens of Chapel Hill, NC)
Boltonia asteroides ‘Pink Beauty’, ‘Snowbank’ (slightly moist soils from New Jersey to North Dakota, south to Florida and Texas.
Chelone glabra (Newfoundland to Minnesota, south to Georgia and Missouri)
Chelone lyonii ‘Hot Lips’ (Appalachian mountains in North and South Carolina and Tennessee)
Cimicifuga racemosa, (Massachusetts to Ontario, south to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri)
Coreopsis ‘Crème Brulee’ (found in the garden of Lois Woodhall of The Plantage Nursery on Long Island), ‘Limerock Passion’ (a sport of ‘Limerock Ruby), ‘Limerock Ruby’ (found by May Ann Faria of Limerock Plant Farm in Rhode Island), ‘Zagreb’
Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Early Sunrise’ (Missouri and Kansas, south to Florida and New Mexico)
Coreopsis rosea ‘American Dream’ (Nova Scotia to Delaware, to Georgia)
Coreopsis verticillata (Maryland to Florida, west to Arkansas)
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’ (cultivated variety with American parents)
Coreopsis x ‘Tequila Sunrise’- (garden origin)
Dicentra eximia (mountains from New York to Georgia)
Dicentra Formosa ‘Aurora’ (California native/Pacific northwest)
Echinacea purpurea (prairies from Ohio to Iowa, south to Georgia and Louisiana)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Little Giant’ (Dan Heims selection)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Ruby Giant’ (Dan Heims selection)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Ruby Star’ (from Jelitto Seed)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Sunrise’, ‘Sunset’, and ‘Sundown’ (selections from Itsaul Nursery in Atlanta-E. purpurea x E. paradoxa)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Kim’s Knee High’ (found and introduced by Kim Hawks of Niche Gardens in Chapel Hill, NC)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ (named by Klaus Jellitto of Jellitto Seeds)
Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ (naturally occurring selection)
Eupatorium dubium ‘Little Joe’ (selected by Conard Pyle Co. of West Grove, PA)
Eupatorium maculatum ‘Gateway’ (Southern Maine and Texas to Iowa, south to Florida and Texas-‘Gateway was found at Kurt Bluemel’s nursery in Monkton, MD)
Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’ (eastern North America-introduced by Dr. Richard Lighty)
Filipendula ruba (Pennsylvania to Georgia, west to Iowa and Missouri)
Gaillardia aristata ‘Arizona Sun’ (native from prairie grasslands of Canada to Arizona)
Gaillardia x grandiflora (of garden origin; now naturalized in western parts of United States)
Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘Goblin’ (hybrid of G. aristata x G. pulchella)
Gaillardia ‘Fanfare’ (cultivar developed by Richard Read)
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Siskiyou Pink’ (selected by Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery-LA, Texas)
Geranium sanguineum (naturalized)
Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Prairie Sunset’ (selected by Neil Dibold of Prairie Nursery), ‘Summer Sun’ (New York to Michigan and northern Illinois, south to Georgia and New Mexico)
Helleborus ‘Brandywine’ (from Hellebore breeder David Culp in Dowingtown, PA)
*not native, but bred and selected in PA*
Hemerocalis fulva (naturalized in the United States)
Heuchera americana ‘Green Spice’
Heuchera americana ‘Montrose Ruby’ (Ontario to Illinois and Michigan, south to Georgia, Louisiana and Missouri-introduced by Nancy Goodwin of Montrose Nursery in Hillsboro NC)
Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’ (Virginia to Tennessee, south to Georgia-named and introduced by Bluemount Nurseries, Monkton, MD)
Heuchera villosa ‘Caramel’
Heuchera ‘Silver Scrolls’ (Charles Oliver introduction)
Heuchera ‘Snow Angel’ (chance seedling found at Blue Bird Nursery)
Heucherella ‘Bridget Bloom’ (intergeneric hybrid created from American Heuchera and Tiarella plants)
Hibiscus moscheutos (salt and fresh water marshes from Massachusetts to Michigan, south to Florida panhandle and Alabama)
Hibiscus m. ‘Lady Baltimore’
Hibiscus m. ‘Lord Baltimore’
Hibiscus x ‘Fantasia’ (a Fleming Brothers hybrid)
Hibiscus x ‘Fireball’ (a Fleming Brothers hybrid)
Hibiscus x ‘Kopper King’ (a Fleming Brothers hybrid)
Iris cristata (eastern United States: (moist woodlands Maryland to Missouri, south to Georgia and Oklahoma)
Iris crisata ‘Alba’, ‘Powder Blue Giant’ (forms of native cristata)
Iris pseudacorus (naturalized in eastern United States)
Iris versicolor (Eastern Canada, south to Pennsylvania, and Minn.)
Iris ‘Black Gamecock’ (Louisiana Iris, Ohio to Illinois, south to Florida and west to Kansas and Texas)
Liatris microcephala (Southern Appalachians)
Liatris spicata ‘Floristan White’, ‘Kobold’ (moist areas from Long Island to Michigan, south to Florida and Louisiana)
Liatris spicata ‘Kobold’ (moist areas, Long Island to Michigan, south to Florida and Louisiana)
Lobelia cardinalis (New Brunswick to Minnesota, south to Florida an eastern Texas)
Lobelia x ‘Ruby Slippers’ (hybrid of native Lobelia cardinalis x Lobelia siphilitica, introduced in 1989 by North Carolina resident, Thurman Maness)
Lobelia siphilitica (Maine to South Dakota, south to North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kansas)
Mertensia Virginia (New York to Tennessee and Alabama, west to Kansas)
Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’ (is named for the son of Georgia plantsman and garden designer Jean Cline), ‘Marshall’s Delite’(A Canadian Ornamental Plant Foundation introduction), ‘Petite Delight’ (Bred by Lynn Collicutt of the Morden Research Experimental Station, Manitoba)- (rich moist woodlands and mountain slopes from Maine to Michigan, south to Georgia and Tennessee)
Monarda ‘Coral Reef’ (from the Morden Breeding program in Manitoba)
Oenothera f. ‘Lemon Silver’ (Kansas, Nebraska)
Oenothera ‘Siskiyou’ (native to western Oklahoma and Texas)
Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker Red’ (Maine, to South Dakota and south to Texas)
Phlox divaricata ‘Blue Elf’ (garden origin)
Phlox d. ‘May Breeze’ (A Piet Oudolf introduction)-(Quebec to Michigan, south to
Georgia, Florida panhandle, and Texas)
Phlox paniculata ‘David’ (a chance seedling found by Richard Simon of Bluemount Nurseries in Monkton, MD and named by F.M. Mooberry for her husband), ‘David’s Lavender’(a selection from seedlings of ‘David’ an introduced by Itsaul Plants), ‘Nicky’(from Niche Gardens), ‘Robert Poore’ (a Niche Gardens introduction, named after architect and ecological planner, Robert Poore, a native of Mississippi), ‘Sandra’, ‘Shortwood’ (a chance seedling form Phlox ‘David’ discovered by Sinclair Adam of Dunvagen Nursery and named for Stephanie Cohens garden)-(fertile, moist soil from New York to Georgia, west to Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas)
Phlox stolonifera ‘Blue Ridge’, ‘Home Fires’ (Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia)
Phlox sublata ‘Candy Stripe’, ‘Emerald Blue’, ‘Scarlet Flame’, ‘White Delight’ (well-drained soils from New York to Michigan, south to mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee)
Physostegia virginiana ‘Miss Manners’ (selected by Darrell Probst, of Garden Visions in Hubbardstn, MA and introduced by Planthaven), ‘Vivid’ (New Brunswick to Alberta, south to Georgia and Texas)
Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (selected by Bill Cullina of the New England Wildflower Society (- (reptans native to: moist woodlands from New Hampshire to Georgia an Alabama, west to Minnesota and Oklahoma)
Rudbeckia fulida ‘Goldstrum’ (Connecticut to West Virginia, west to Michigan an Missouri)
Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida (New Jersey to Illinois, south to northern Alabama)
Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Goldquelle’ (Quebec to northern Florida, west to Rocky Mountains and beyond)
Rudbeckia nitida ‘Autumn Glory’ (US native of light woodlands & moist meadows)
Rudbeckia maxima (MO. South to LA and Texas)
Sisyrinchium augustifolium ‘Lucerne’ (named by Robert Herman)-(open woods, meadows, and prairies from Newfoundland to Minnesota, south to Florida and Louisiana)
Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’ (selected and named by Ken Moore of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in 1972 and introduced by Niche Gardens)-(Newfoundland to Ontario, south to West Virginia and Kentucky)
Stokesia laevis ‘Blue Danube’, ‘White Star’ (South Carolina, south to Louisiana and Florida)
Stokesia ‘Color Wheel’ (new variety from Itsaul Plants)
Tiarella cordifolia ‘Oakleaf’ (Inroduction from the University of Delaware, the Brandywine Conservancy and Dunvegan Nursery), ‘Elizabeth Oliver’, ‘Brandwine’ (from Sinclair Adam of Dunvegan Nursery), ‘Running Tapestry’ (discovered by Jim Plyler of Natural Landscapes Nursery, West Grove, PA), ‘Black Snowflake’ (woods from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin, south through Appliachians to Georgia and Mississippi,Virginia and Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi)
Tradescantia virginiana ‘Bilberry Ice’,‘Concord Grape’ (Kevin Vaughn introduction), ‘Red Grape’, ‘Snowcap’, ‘Sweet Kate’ (Connecticut to Georgia, west to Missouri)
Verbena ‘Homestead Pink’ (sometimes sold as ‘Silver Anne’, native through out South Carollina’, ‘Homestead Purple’ (found and named by Dr. Alan Armitage and Dr. Michael Dirr of the University of Georgia found in a homestead in Georgia), ‘Taylortown Red’
Viola labradorica (Greenland, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to New Hampshire and Minnesota, moist woodlands of northern US)
SHRUBS
Fothergilla major ‘Mt. Airy’ (dry Appalachian woods from southern Virginia to northern
Alabama)
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ (first found in Anna, Illinois, southern New York to Missouri, south to Florida panhandle and Mississippi)
Itea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’, ‘Little Henry’ (low, wet woods and swamps from the New Jersey Pine Barrens south to Florida, west to Missouri and Texas)
Yucca filamentosa (North Carolina, south to Florida and Mississippi)
Yucca filamentosa ‘Bright Edge’ (Roslyn Nursery), ‘Color Guard’
Yucca flaccida ‘Golden Sword’ (coastal plain of southeastern Atlantic region & naturalized. North Carolina, Alabama in & near mountains.)
VINES
Campsis radicans (New Jersey to Nebraska, south to Florida and Texas)
Campsis ‘Flava’ (eastern America)
Lonicera sempervirens ‘Blanche Sandman’, ‘John Clayton’ (named for the colonial botanist, and found on the grounds of a 17th century Abington church, in Glouchester, VA)-(Connecticut south to Florida and Texas)
FERNS
Adiantum pedatum-Maidenhair Fern (woods in North America)
Athyrium filix-femina-Lady Fern (Temperate Northern Hemisphere)
Blechnum spicant-Deer Fern (Alaska to California)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula-Hayscented Fern (eastern North America)
Dryopteris celsa-Log Fern (eastern United States)
Dryopteris marginalis-Evergreen Wood Fern (eastern North America)
Dryopteris pseudo filix-mas-Mexican Male Fern (high elevations in Mexico)
Dryopteris robusta-Male Robust Fern (cool, moist, rocky woods in western & north eastern North America)
Matteuccia pensylvanica-Ostrich Fern (North Temperate Regions)
Onoclea sensibilis-Sensitive Fern (Manitoba to Newfoundland, south to Texas, the Gulf Coast & Florida)
Osmunda cinnamonea-Cinnamon Fern (North and South America)
Osmunda regalis-Royal Fern (Newfoundland to Sask., south to Florida and LA)
Polystichum acrostichoides-Christmas Fern (eastern North America)
GRASSES
Carex glauca (naturalized in eastern North America)
Chasmanthium latifolium (woodlands, Pennsylvania, west to Manitoba, south to north Florida, New Mexico, and north Mexico)
Deschampsia caespitosa (Greenland to Alaska, south to North Carolina and California)
Festuca cinerea ‘Elijah Blue’ (selected by Lois Woodhull, founder of the Plantage Nursery)-(David Culp list this as a native of North America and Eurasia in his course book, Colorado State Univ. cooperative extension web site list this as a introduced from central Europe)
Muhlenbergii capillaries (sandy or rocky soil from Massachusetts, southwest and Mexico)
Panicum virgatum ‘Cloud Nine’ (selected at Bluemount Nursery in Monkton, MD), ‘Haense Herms’, ‘Heavy Metal’ (introduced by Kurt Bluemel)-, Prairie Sky’ (found by Roger Gettig, of the Holden Arboretum (Kirtland, Ohio) growing wild in central Wisconsin), ‘Rotstrahlbusch’, ‘Shenandoah’ (introduced by Dr. Hans Simon)-(prairies in eastern half of North American continent)
Phalaris arundinacea a.’Picta’, a. ‘Strawberries & Cream’ (North America, from New Brunswick to Alaska, south to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona)
Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ (introduced by Tony Avent of Plants Delight)-(Central and Eastern United States) (Quebec to Alberta, south to Florida and Arizona)
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