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Gardening with Natives plant list

Amorpha canescens (Lead Plant)

Aralia racemosa(Spikenard)

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)

Baptisia leucantha (White Wild Indigo)

(Pale Purple Coneflower)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)

Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)

Euphorbia corollata (Flowering Spurge)

Liatris aspera (Rough Gayfeather or Button Gayfeather)

Liatris cylindracea (Cylindric Blazing Star)

Liatris pycnostachya (Kansas Gayfeather)

Parthenium integrifolium (Wild Quinine)

Pycnanthemum virginicum ( Virginia Mountain Mint)

Ratibida pinnata (Gray-Headed Coneflower)

Ruellia humilis (Wild Petunia)

Silphium laciniatum (Compass Plant)

Veronicastrum virginicum(Culver's Root) non-natives

Aconitum `Spark's Variety' (Monkshood)

Clematis `Durandii'

Cotinus coggygria `Purpureus'(Smokebush)

Miscanthus sinensis `Variegatus' (Variegated Japanese Silver Grass)

Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage)

Phlox `David' (Garden Phlox)

Phlox `Eva Cullum' (Garden Phlox)

One book I especially like on this subject and that lists other books and sources of plants is: A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wild Flowers, C. Colston Burrell, RODALE,1997.

We were at Lee Zieke Lee &Lindsay Lee's gardens:

Willowglen Nursery
3512 Lost Mile Road
Decorah, Iowa 52101
phone: (319) 735-5570

We visited Dan Allen:

Allendan Seeds
Winterset, Iowa
We went to Ludwig Preserve
Winneshiek County, IA

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