Plant Species in the Garden

Hannah's Butterfly Garden:


Flowers:

• prairie smoke ~native~
• blue eyed grass ~native~
• rough blazing star ~native~
• sweet oxeye ~native~
• virginia mountain mint ~native~
• lance-leaved/sand coreopsis ~native~
• pale purple coneflower ~native~
• thimbleweed (dead) ~native~
• hairy beartongue ~native~
• wood aster

Grasses:

• Side-oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) ~native~

Xeriscape Garden:


Flowers:

• purple coneflower (echinacea purpurea) ~native cultivar~
• black eyed susans (rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’) ~native cultivar~
• tall tickseed (coreopsis tripteris) ~native~
• shining coneflower (rudbeckia nitida  'Herbstonne') ~native cultivar hybrid~
• dense blazing star (liatris spicata) ~native cultivar~
• brown eyed susan (rudbeckia hirta) ~native~
• yellow coneflower (ratibida pinnata) ~native~
• pale purple coneflower (echinacea pallida) ~native~
• smooth aster (symphyotrichum laeve) ~native~

Grasses:

• big blue stem (andropogon gerardii) ~native~
• red switchgrass (panicum virgatum 'Hanse Herms') ~native cultivar~
• tall switchgrass (panicum virgatum 'Strictum') ~native cultivar~
• feather reed grass (calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster')
• dwarf fountain grass (pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln') ~native cultivar~
• indian grass (sorghastrum nutans) ~native~

"Secret" Garden:

Flowers:

• new england aster () ~native~
• foxglove beardtongue () ~native~
• joe-pye weed () ~native~
• butterfly milkweed () ~native~
• Michigan Lily (dead) () ~native~
• purple coneflower (echinacea purpurea) ~native cultivar~
• common goldenrod (solidago canadensis) ~native~
• black Eyed Susans (rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’) ~native cultivar~
• tall tickseed (coreopsis tripteris) ~native~
• day lily (memerocallis) ~native cultivar~
• brown eyed susan (rudbeckia hirta) ~native~
• wild bergamot (monarda fistulosa) ~native~
• white coneflower (echinacea purpurea 'alba') ~native cultivar~
• late figwort (scrophularia marilandica) ~native~
• stiff goldenrod (solidago rigida) ~native~
• yarrow (achillea millefolium) ~native cultivar~

Grasses:

• indian grass (sorghastrum nutans) ~native~

Memorial Garden:


Flowers:

• obedient plant (physostegia virginiana 'white crown') ~native cultivar~
• lithodora (lithodora 'grace ward')
• western bleeding heart (dicentra formosa 'luxuriant')

Other Areas:

Flowers:

• sedum 'Autumn Joy'

Shrubs:

• staghorn sumac (rhus typhina) ~native~
• fragrant sumac (rhus aromatica) ~native~
• diabolo ninebark (physocarpus opulifolius 'Monlo') ~native cultivar~
• forsythia ('Northern Gold')
• burning bush (euonymus alatus)
• rose of sharon (hibiscus syriacus)
• honeysuckle
• creeping euonymus or wintercreeper (Euonymus fortunei)
• emerald 'n' gold Euonymus
• yellow potentilla

Vines:

• virginia creeper (parthenocissus quinquefolia) ~native~
• dutchmans pipe (aristolochia macrophylla)
• virgins bower (clematis virginiana) ~native~

Clematis: 

• 'MultiBlue'
• clematis 'Little Nell'
• clematis 'General Sikorski'