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* Bergenia (also called heart-leaved bergenia) is a clump-forming perennial which is primarily grown as a ground cover. Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall.

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

* Good tree for striking yellow late summer flowers in upright clusters as large as 2' x 1 1/2'; seed "pods" pinkish, very attractive, good for dried arrangements; bipinnate leaves; upright habit; flowers when young; needs sun; native to China.

They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus.

* The large solitary flower head grows at the top of the stem and sometimes on branches. * It is native to China,and it is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant. * Its common names include China aster and annual aster.

* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

* Foot-long clusters of yellow flowers in midsummer, followed by red or brownish "pods" that persist into fall; Dirr calls it a "beautiful dense tree of regular rounded outline, sparingly branched" * It is popularly grown as an ornamental tree in temperate...

* A vigorous plant, spreading by subterranean suckers and forming thickets. * Spiraea tomentosa , commonly known as the Steeplebush , is a plant similar in characteristic to the Hardhack ( S.

* Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. * The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid.

Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. It is also used in treating kidney diseases. It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies.

They are useful in the treatment of chest complaints. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus.

* Gray-green branches; flowers in late spring; fruit white or bluish; native to Rocky Mountains from southern Oregon south. * It bears plentiful clusters of fuzzy white flowers and bluish-white berries.

Miconioides produces large shows of small fragrant white blooms attractive to butterflies, the flowers five-petalled, < 13 mm across. Miconioides is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, typically growing to a height of between 4 and 8 m.

* Bergenia (also called heart-leaved bergenia) is a clump-forming perennial which is primarily grown as a ground cover. Leaves typically form a thick, slowly-spreading clump of foliage to 12" tall.

Mollis is widely grown as an ornamental plant, valued for the strongly-scented flowers appearing in winter when little else is growing. * Large shrub or small tree; fall color yellow or yellow orange; yellow flowers in February and March; likes moist,...

* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .

* Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. * The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid.

* A beautiful shrub or small tree with shiny 5 to 6 inch dark green lustrous leaves that turn orange and red in the fall. It is prized for its fragrant white flowers, similar to camellia blossoms.

* Hydrangea paniculata , commonly known as the panicled hydrangea , is a species of Hydrangea found in eastern China , Korea , Japan , and Sakhalin . It is sometimes smoked as an intoxicant, despite the danger of illness and/or death due to the cyanide.

* The Iceland Poppy ( Papaver nudicaule syn. Macounii ) is a boreal flowering plant. Nudicaule has been shown to contain the benzophenanthidine alkaloid, chelidonine . In particular, P.

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada (south of Ontario), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows on sand hills.

* A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -20°c. * The Trumpet vine or Trumpet creeper ( Campsis radicans ), also known as "Cow itch vine" and (in horticulture ) as " hummingbird vine ", is a large and vigorous woody vine of the family Bignoniaceae...

* A shrub with smooth bark, dark green spreading branches and pendulous and pubescent twigs. The flowers are golden yellow and sweet scented, are grouped in pendulous racemes upto 25 cm long, and typically bloom in May.

Growth slows or stops in winter. Variegated Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thompsoniae ‘Variegata') Here's a beautiful variation of this famous climber that has clusters of brilliant red flowers against white calyces and striking variegated foliage...

Blooms appear in late summer to early fall on branching-at-the-top stems rising to 4-6' tall. Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum. Coarse, aromatic, triangular, doubly-serrate, long-petioled, basal leaves (to 12" long) with cordate bases.

Requires a lime-free soil. * The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs acid soil in cultivation; many elaborate, unusual, beautiful, and rather difficult-to-grow...

* Maypops is a valuable sedative and tranquillising herb with a long history of use in North America. * Passiflora incarnata , commonly known as Maypop , Purple passionflower , True passionflower , Wild apricot , and Wild passion vine , is a fast growing...