HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS 
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HARDY NATIVE HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, continued 
SHORTIA GALACIFOLIA. 6 to 8 in. Introduced by us. A very rare plant with clusters of 
large v/avy leaves, from which flower-stems rise bearing white or pink flowers with crimpled 
petals. Thrives best in Rhododendron beds. Leaves color rich bronze in fall. 
SILENE stellata. Starry Campion. 2 to VA ft. Panicles of white showy flowers in summer. 
virginica. Fire Pink. 1 to 2 ft. One of the showiest herbaceous plants. June to August, deep crimson. 
SMILACINA racemosa. See Vagnera. 
SOLIDAGO canadensis. 2 to 4 ft. One of the most showy and satisfactory species known. Yellow flower 
heads large and dense. 
lancifolia. GoldKN rod. 2 to 3 ft. Yellow. August. 
odora. Sweet Goldenkod. 2 to 4 ft. One-sided panicles in late summer. Plant fragrant, 
virgaurea. 2 to 4 ft. Greenish yellow panicles and large leafy stalk. 
SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. 6 to 15 in. A brilliant plant, the scarlet flowers with yellow cen¬ 
ters in one-sided cymes. 
STENANTHIUM ROBUSTUM. STOUT STENANTHIUM. 3 to 5 ft. Tall, with extremely showy 
panicles often 2 feet long. This is one of our recent introductions, and is, without doubt, a 
plant that will be used by thousands when known. The pure white flowers are borne on graceful 
compound panicles, often 2 to 3 feet long, and a clump of these plants makes a show equalled by 
few herbaceous plants of any description. 
STEIRONEMA ciliatum. Fringed Loosestrife. 1 to 4 ft. Bright yellow flowers in July, 
quadrifolia. i to 2 ft. Abundant yellow flowers on long peduncles and whorled. 
THALICTRUM dioicum. Early Meadow-Rue. 1 to 2 ft. Purple or greenish flowers. April and May. 
Elegant cut foliage. 
THERMOPSIS CAROLINIANA. SOUTHERN Thermopsis. 3 to 5 ft. Yellow flowers in termi¬ 
nal racemes. May and June. Extremely showy plant for massing. 
THEROFON aconitifolium. Aconite Saxifrage. 1 to 2 ft. White flowers and cymes and palmately cut 
leaves. July. Along streams. 
TRADESCANTIA pilosa. Ziozao Spiderwort. 1 to 3 in. Blue. June to August. 
virglnlca. Spiderwort. 8 in. to 3 ft. Blue. Good plant among shrubbery, forming large clumps. Summer, 
virginica alba. 1 to 2 ft. White variety of last. 
TRAUTVETTERIA carolinensis. False Bugbane. 2 to 3 ft. Alternate lobed leaves. Cymes of white 
flowers. Early summer along streams. 
TRIOSTEUM porfollatum. Horse Gentian. 2 to 4 ft. June. Brownish purple. A coarse, hairy perennial. 
Shrub borders. 
UNIFOLIUM canadcnsc. Two-Leaved Solomon’s Seal. 2 to 7 in. Small white flowers on recurved stems, 
growing usually in green moss or dead leaves. 
UVULARIA porfoliata. Perfoliate Bellwort. 0 to 20 in. Pale yellow. Early spring. Flowers showy. 
HOHHllifolla. Sessile-Leaved Bellwort. 0 to 18 in. May. Yellow. 
Yucca glauoa (Sec pane 08) 
Cimicituga racemosa tiSee page .'U 
Photographed at Highlands Nursery 
Thermopsis caroliniana 
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