SEEDS OF NATIVE PLANTS 
Crop of 1953 
25¢ per packet except as noted. All are postpaid. 
Residents of Michigan add 3% sales tax. 
Actaea alba - White Baneberry. Small white flowers 
' followed by white fruit with black tip. 2 ft. Sh 
Actaea rubra - Red Baneberry. Small white flowers 
. followed by red fruit, 2 ft. Sh. 
Actinea herbacea - Lakeside Daisy. Yellow daisy in 
spring. Rare and choice. 6-10 in. S. 35c. 
Allium cernuum - Nodding Onion. Nodding lilac flowers. 
Allium recurvatum superbum - Pagosa Onion. Showy 
pink flowers in July. 20 in. S. 
Aquilegia canadensis - American Columbine, red and 
yellow, May-June, 1-3 ft. S or L, Sh. 
Aquilegia chrysantha - Golden Columbine. Long spurred 
yellow flowers, May-June, 2-3 ft. S or L, Sh. 
Aquilegia coerulea - Colorado Columbine. Long spurred 
blue and white. Colo. state flower. 114% ft. 50c. 
Aquilegia longissima - Longest spurred of all Colum- 
bines. Pale yellow. July-Aug. 50c. 
Argemone intermedia - Prickley Poppy. 4 in. crinkley 
blooms all summer. 2 ft. S. Sow where wanted. 
Arisaema triphyllum - Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Named for 
odd shaped flower. 1-2 ft. Sh 
Artemisia frigida - Mountain Fringe, velvety-silvery 
mounds to 4 in., S 
Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly weed, showy orange 
flower, June-August, 2 ft., 
Aster alpinus - An alpine aster to 10 in. Large violet- 
rayed handsome flower. Choice, 35c. 
Baptisia australis - Blue wild Indigo, blue flowers in 
terminal racemes, June, 3-6 ft., 
Callirhoe involucrata - Wine Poppy, rose-purple, spring 
till frost. Beautiful trailer, S. 
Camassia quamash - Blue Camas, blue, May-June, 2 ft., S. 
Campanula rotundifolia - Blue Bells of Scotland, blue, 
June till frost. 15 in., S or Sh 
Cassia marilandica - Wild Senna, bright yellow flowers, 
July-August, 3-4 ft., S. 
Caulophyllum thalictroides - Blue Cohosh. Small spring 
flowers. Blue fruit late summer, 1-2 ft. moist shade. 
Celastrus scandens - Climbing Bittersweet. A climbing 
vine to 30 ft. Orange-yellow fruits much used in bou- 
quets and decorating. S. or L. Sh. 
Cerastinum alpinum - Alpine Mouse-ear Chickweed. 
Wooly grey foliage. Flowers white, June-Sept., 2 in., 
S.5 dot, 
Celone glabra - White Turtlehead, white, August-Sept., 
moist or garden conditions, 2-4 ft., S. 
Cimicifuga racemosa - Cohosh Bugbane, small white 
flowers on elongated racemes, summer, 4-6 ft., 
Cimicifuga simplex - Bugbane. Flowers pure white in 
dense raceme. Oct. Rare, 3 ft., Sh., 35c. 
Claytonia virginica - Spring Beauty. Early spring. White 
or pink. 4 in., L, Sh. 35c. 
Clethra alnifolia - Summersweet. White spicy fragrant 
flowers July-Sept. 3-10 ft. shrub. 
Corydalis sempervirens - Pink Corydalis, Bien, very 
showy first year rosette, 1 ft., S or L, Sh. 
Delphinium cardinale - Scarlet Larkspur. Bright red. 
July-Aug., 3-6 ft, S or L, Sh., 35¢e. 
