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* Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America . Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. * The bulb is eaten cooked. Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American...

* The large solitary flower head grows at the top of the stem and sometimes on branches. * This is an annual or biennial herb with one erect, mostly unbranched stem growing 20 to 100 centimeters tall.

* Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America . Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. * The bulb is eaten cooked. Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American...

* A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * A refreshing tea is made from the flower petals.

* The crimson fall color is stunning. * A small variety with deeply cut red leaves.

The flowers are red and scented with numerous yellow stamens in the centre. * This peony can reach between 30 and 60 centimeters in height. * The narrow, divided leaves are almost thread-like and grow close together on the stems.

* The familiar large-flowered poppy with 3-6" flowers, usually red but sometimes orange or pale pink; foliage dies back in midsummer; long-lived; wants full sun, good drainage; native to Turkey and environs.

* Lacy leaves of a deep red in the spring but foliage color fades to light green in early summer. * Hardier than green-leaved types. * Fall color is sensational. Acer palmatum preers a sunny, airy spot except for in the midday heat where it needs shade.

* 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.

* The crimson fall color is stunning. * A small variety with deeply cut red leaves.

* The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds. The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee.

* The plant was introduced from Central Asia in 1874 and is popular in gardens. Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across.

Requires an acid to neutral soil. Grows well in a poor sandy soil. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada...

They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. * Many people perceive Joe Pye weed to be nothing more than a roadside weed and have never seriously considered its outstanding ornamental attributes.

The uppermost part of the leaf is flared into a lid (the operculum), which prevents excess rain from entering the pitcher and diluting the digestive secretions within. Sarracenia rubra is generally clump-forming.

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

* Swamp-rose Mallow or Rose mallow ( Hibiscus moscheutos ) is a cold-hardy perennial wetland plant that can grow in large colonies. An infusion of the dried stalks has been used in the treatment of inflammation of the bladder.

* A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. * The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. * The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps,...

Mountain maple ACSP2 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree, Shrub Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N), SPM (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator FACU-, FACU Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period Spring and Summer After Harvest Regrowth...

* Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots. Naturalizes in optimum growing conditions by both self-seeding and creeping rhizomes.

Bigleaf hornbeam is an additional common name sometime used for this tree. It is noted for its graceful form, large heart-shaped leaves, scaly fissured bark, large fruiting catkins and large winter buds.

Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum and coarse acid sand. This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in .

Like Blueberries and Spiraea, Abelias are tightly suckering shrubs producing new canes that eventually supplant the oldest ones and so will benefit from a periodic renewal of this type.

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 .

* A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia. * Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia .

Crispa occurs on the current year's growth. * Grow in fertile, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. It can be trained to climb a wall, trellis, fence, arbor, porch, lamppost or other stationary structure.

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