KELSEY'S HARDY AMERICAN RLANT^^ 
Grok/n in the Carolina jyfountains at 3800 ^et elel^atid^^^ 
HARDY NATIVE HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS 
Cardinal Flowek. 2 to i% ft. Sliowv, close 
continued 
racemes of scarlet flowers. 
July to 
LOBELIA cardinalis. 
Sfpti-inluT. 
syphilitica. Bn :i; t'AUDiSAL Fix)\vek. 1 to 3 ft. Strong-growing species with large blue flowers. 
MELANTHIUM virginicum. Bunch Flower. 2X to 5 ft. Panicles of showy cream-colored flowers. 
MERTENSIA virginica. Bu e Bells. 1 to 2 ft. May ; ricli purple-blue. 
MIMULUS ringens. S(ii ARF.-STF.M.MEi> Monkey Flower. I to 3 ft. Light blue, good bog plant. July and 
September. 
MONARDA DIDYMA. OswEGO Tea. 1 to 3 ft. 
Bright scarlet and extremely showy. Thrives in 
moist or dry soil. July and August. 
Clinopodia. 1 to .1 ft. Flesh-colored, 
fistulosa. 1 to ;! ft. Lilac. 
PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM. GINSENG. 8 to 15 in. 
Well known as the great Chinese medicinal herb, now 
becoming rare and local. The roots enormously val- 
uable under cultivation for export. Special price-list 
and illustrated circular on the subject on request. 
Flowers white or greenish. Fruit bright red. July. 
PARNASSIA ASARIFOLIA. Kidney-Leaved GRASS 
OF Parnassus. 10 to 20 in. White and greenish or 
yellowish veins. Damp places along streams. 
PEDICULARIS canadensis. Wood Betony. 5 to 12 in. 
(Jreenish yellow or purplish flowers in dense spike. Hairy 
leaves. 
PARONYCHIA argyrocoma. 2 to 3 in. A tufted little rock 
plant, witli silvery foliage and flowers. Kare. 
PHLOX maculata. Wild Sweet William. 1% to 3 ft. June 
an<l July. I*ink-purple. 
pUosa. liowNV PuLo.K. 1 to 2 ft. May and June. Pink- 
purple or rose color; rarely white, 
subulata. See under Creepers, 
subulata alba. See under Creepers. 
PHYSOSTEGIA virglnlana. Liox's Heart. 2 to 4 ft. June, 
virginiana var. alba. White Variety. 2 to 4 ft. 
PODOPHYLLUM peltatum. May Apple. 1 to 2K ft. White. 
Sanguinaria canadensis. Bloodroot 
Rose or flesh color, variegated with purple. 
Very large peltate leaves. Shady situation. 
POLYGONATUM biflorum 
and .1 iiiie. 
Haip.y Solomon's Seal. Sin. to 3 ft. Nearly white, with curved stems. May 
SOLOMON'S Seal. 2 to 8 ft. Panicled racemes of drooping flowers on very 
COMMUTATUM 
long stems. 
PORTERANTHUS STIPULATUS. AMERICAN Ipecac. 1 to 2 ft. Handsome cut foliage and 
flowers pure white or rose-tinted. One of the finest of our native 
plants to mass. Blossoms in early summer. 
POTENTILLA tridentata. Three-Toothed Cinqvefoil. 1 to 12 in. Leaves 
color Ijrifihl j)urpU-; white flowers. July and August. Rockery. 
P Y R O L A TOtundifolia. Round - Leaved 
WiNTERtiHEEN. G to 20 in. July. White. 
RHEXIA virginica. Deer Grass. 1 to 1)4 
ft. Bright purple. Kasily grown. 
RUDBECKIA fulglda. Orange Cone 
Flower. 1 to 3 ft. Orange-yellow, in late 
summer. Very showy. 
SANGUINARIA canadensis. Bloodroot. 
4 to 10 in. A beautiful perennial, with large 
pure while flowers in very early spring. 
SAXIFRAGA michauxii. Alpine Saxi- 
frage. 0 to 20 in. White flowers spotted 
Willi yellow, bright pink anthers. Rare, 
micranthidifolia. Lkttiie Saxifrage. 
1 to 3 ft. Wliite. Damp locations or bog. 
SCROPHULARIA marilandica. 
Maryland Pihwort. 3 to 10 ft. 
Greenish purple. 
SEDUM telephioides. American 
Orpine. G to 12 in. June. Flesh 
color. Rockery or damp places. 
Very fleshy leaves, 
telephium. Orpine. 6 to 10 in. 
July. Purple, 
ternatum. Wild Stonbcrop. 3 to 
MonardaS in variety, ^rom a pholoyrapU of mass plautini; taken at llignrands Nursery 8 in. June. White. 
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