2007 Native Plant Seed CatalogWildflower Seeds - page 14 of 40 |
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Name |
Conditions |
Description |
Germination |
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| 89 | Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium) |
part sun, shade | May | pink | 2 ft | moist | Familiar woodland wildflower often growing along paths. Five-petaled flowers on tall stems above divided foliage. Happily seeds itself here and there. Summer dormant. | B |
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| 90 | Geranium maculatum var. album (White Wild Geranium) |
sun to shade | May | white or pink | 1 ft. | moist | A vigorous white form that comes fairly true from seed. The white seedlings lack any maroon pigment in the stems and petioles when they have been exposed to strong light. | B |
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| 91 | Geum rivale (Purple Avens) |
sun, part sun | May | red-purple | 1 ft. | moist to wet | A plant of bogs and swamps with tall spikes of cupped flowers that rise up above the surrounding sedges and ferns. | A |
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| 92 | Helonias bullata (Swamp Pink) |
sun, part sun | May | pink/blue | 16 in. | wet | Lily relative endangered in its native haunts. Evergreen rosettes produce dense, unusually colored "pokers" of flowers. Great in the bog garden or other wet, sunny spot. Rare in cultivation. The seed should be surface sown and kept in a shallow saucer of water. The seed takes 2-4 weeks to germinate. | A, G |
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| 93 | Hepatica (Anemone) acutiloba (Hepatica) |
part sun, shade | April | blue or white | 6 in. | moist, limestone | Exquisite native of limey places. Low, evergreen leaves greet spring with furry-stemmed flowers. In general, flower color is lighter than H. americana. Likes light shade or morning sun and fertilizer in spring. Seedlings can be coaxed to grow more quickly in bright light and with bi-weekly applications of dilute fertilizer | D* |
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| 95 | Heuchera alba (White Alumroot) |
sun, part sun | August | white | 12-16 in. | well-drained | A rare species from the mountains of Virginia/West Virginia producing small rounded gray-green leaves and relatively large creamy white flowers on tall spikes. | A or B, H |
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