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Green Landscaping: Greenacres
Wild Ones Handbook
WHAT EVERY WILD ONE SHOULD KNOW
Landscaping for Wildlife
NATIVE PLANTS FOR BUTTERFLY GARDENS
Flowers |
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Wild Garlic | Allium canadense |
Nodding Onion | Allium cernuum |
Prairie Onion | Allium stellatum |
Lead Plant | Amorpha canescens |
Bluntleaf Milkweed | Asclepias amplexicaulis |
Green Milkweed | Asclepias hirtell |
Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
Prairie Milkweed | Asclepias sullivantii |
Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
Butterfly Milkweed | Asclepias tuberosa |
Whorled Milkweed | Asclepias verticillata |
Heath Aster | Aster ericoides |
Smooth Aster | Aster laevis |
Savory-leaf Aster | Aster linariifolius |
New England Aster | Aster novae-angliae |
Aromatic Aster | Aster oblongifolius |
Frost Aster | Aster pilosus |
White Aster | Aster ptarmicoides |
Silky Aster | Aster sericeus |
American Bellflower | Campanula americana |
New Jersey Tea | Ceanothus americanus |
Prairie Field Thistle | Cirsium discolor |
Sand Coreopsis | Coreopsis lanceolata |
Prairie Coreopsis | Coreopsis palmata |
Pale Purple Coneflower | Echinacea pallida |
Purple Coneflower | Echinacea purpurea |
Rattlesnake Master | Eryngium yuccifolium |
Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium maculatum |
Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum |
Ox-eye Daisy | Heliopsis helianthoides |
Golden Aster | Heterotheca villosa |
Blazing Star | Liatris aspera |
Dwarf Blazing Star | Liatris cylindracea |
Gayfeather | Liatris pycnostachya |
Bergamot/Bee Balm | Monarda fistulosa |
Dotted Mint | Monarda punctata |
White Prairie Clover | Petalostemum candidum |
Leafy Prairie Clover | Petalostemum foliosum |
Purple Prairie Clover | Petalostemum purpureum |
Prairie Phlox | Phlox pilosa |
Marsh Phlox | Phlox glaberrima |
Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum |
Long-headed Coneflower | Ratibida columnaris |
Prairie Coneflower | Ratibida pinnata |
Wild Rose | Rosa carolina |
Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta |
Tall Coneflower | Rudbeckia laciniata |
Sweet Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia subtomentosa |
Branched Coneflower | Rudbeckia triloba |
Groundsel | Senecio pauperculus |
Star Silphium | Silphium asteriscus |
Rosin Weed | Silphium integrifolium |
Compassplant | Silphium laciniatum |
Cupplant | Silphium perfoliatum |
Prairie Dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum |
Grass-leaved Goldenrod | Solidago graminifolia |
Dyer's Weed | Solidago hemoralis |
Riddell's Goldenrod | Solidago riddelli |
Common Goldenrod | Solidago canadensis |
Stiff Goldenrod | Solidago rigida |
Showy Goldenrod | Solidago speciosa |
Prairie Spiderwort | Tradescantia bracteata |
Spiderwort | Tradescantia ohiensis |
Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata |
Hoary Vervain | Verbena stricta |
Culver's Root | Veronicastrum virginicum |
Bird's Foot Violet | Viola pedata |
Prairie Violet | Viola petatifida |
Golden Alexander | Zizia aurea |
Heart-leaf Alexander | Zizia aptera |
Grasses |
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Sideoats Grama | Bouteloua curtipendula |
Canada Wild Rye | Elymus canadensis |
Switch Grass | Panicum Virgatum |
Little Bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium |
Indian Grass | Sorghastrum nutans |