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Andrew's Bottle Gentian
Gentiana andrewsii
Light: part sun to sun
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: fall
Color: pale blue to deep violet
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Culture and Notes: This late bloomer provides intense color into the fall and is well worth the wait. Grows best in moist soil with part sun. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Big Leaf Aster
Aster macrophyllus
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 3-4'
Blooms: August-October
Color: lavender to violet
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Culture and Notes: An excellent woodland’s edge groundcover forming dense carpets of heart-shaped leaves. Shoots of lavender flowers last for months and the more sun it gets (but not full sun), the more flowers appear. Prefers average to moist garden soils. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Black Cohosh
Cimicifuga racemosa
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 2- 4' (7' w/ flower)
Blooms: mid-summer
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is rich and well drained. Can live in more sun with plentiful water. It has a delicate airy effect on landscape. The smell is strong and unattractive to bugs. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: June-September
Color: yellow-orange
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Culture and Notes: Not picky about soil conditions, will grow in almost any site. Great cut flower, a butterfly magnet. Can be a somewhat fickle perennial, but with the quantity of seed it sets, you will never be out of Black-eyed Susans.

Blue Flag Iris
Iris versicolor
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 18" - 4'
Blooms: late spring
Color: blue-violet
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Culture and Notes: Tropical-sized foliage and blue-violet flowers make this a stunning native iris. Ideal soil is rich, moist or wet; likes standing water. Will tolerate regular garden soil with moderate moisture.

Blue Vervain
Verbena hastata
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: July - September
Color: dark blue/violet
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Culture and Notes: This bristly perennial loves damp places. Ideal soil is moist or wet and well drained, but does fine in drier soil. Continues to bloom in drought and high heat. Small, deep blue to purple flowers form on dense three to six inch spikes. Makes a great cut flower.

Blue Wood Aster
Aster cordifolius
Light: sun to shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: early fall
Color: light blue/violet
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Culture and Notes: Prefers average to dry soil, good at naturalizing under trees. Provides great fall color when covered with half-inch wide flowers. A good source of late season nectar for butterflies and bees.

Blue-eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 10 - 20"
Blooms: May-October with regular dead-heading
Color: a rare true blue flower with gold centers
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist and rich, but does well in most soils. Bloom period extended by deadheading. Great for borders and rock gardens.

Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: spring
Color: blue
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Culture and Notes: A large carefree plant that is highly adaptable. This shade tolerant plant likes moist to wet woods, yet can handle drier soil once established. An ethereal forget-me-not blue flower that attracts the Morning Cloak and other early spring butterflies. Great for borders or rock gardens. Looks best when massed.

Boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: late summer
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Flowers in white terminal umbels from July to September; light sweet smelling blooms attract butterflies. Beautiful when combined with Purple Joe-Pye. Ideal soil is moist but will tolerate drier conditions. An excellent naturalizer around lakes and ponds.

Bunchberry
Cornus canadensis
Light: part to full shade
Height: 3-9"
Blooms: late springto early summer, flowers followed by berries
Color: white flowers, shiny red berries
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Culture and Notes: Ideal conditions are moist, acidic soil with generous amounts of humus or rotten wood. Forms a carpet and is a fast grower once established. Sweet smell. Does best in North County. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Canadian Burnet
Sanguisorba canadensis
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 4-5'
Blooms: late summer into fall
Color: creamy white
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Culture and Notes: Prefers moist or wet soil. Beautiful blue-green compound leaves fold in when plant is shaken or disturbed. Produces lovely bottle brush flowers late in the season that pollinators love. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: late summer
Color: flame red
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist or wet and rich. Will tolerate drier soil, but water well during bloom period. Favorite of hummingbirds. Does not like to be overcrowded and can easily be overcome by more aggressive growers.

Cranesbill
Geranium maculatum
Light: sun to shade
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: May-June
Color: lavender
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is sandy or rich and well-drained. Will tolerate many soil conditions. Great for naturalizing under trees with Wild Columbine and Foam Flower.

Culver's Root
Veronicastrum virginicum
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: July-August
Color: white to lavender
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is well-drained, moist and rich. Will tolerate any soil conditions except extremely alkaline soil. Dramatic flower spikes make great cut flowers. Attracts butterflies. Extremely rare in South County.

Dog-Tooth Daisy
Helenium autumnale
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 4-5'
Blooms: August-September
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Yellow daisy-like flowers brighten any garden and makes a great cut flower. Moist to average soil. Tolerates flooding.

Fire Pink
Silene virginica
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 12-18"
Blooms: June-July
Color: red
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is well-drained. Great border or rock garden plant. Also does well at wood’s edge. Not long-lived, but re-seeds regularly when pollinated by hummingbirds and bees.

Fireweed
Epilobium angustifolium
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: July
Color: bright pink/fuschia
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Culture and Notes: Wonderful plant for meadows and woodland’s edge, can spread aggressively. Ideal soil is well-drained. Provides a long-lived fiery flower display. Rare or endangered in many areas. Fireweed is usually one of the first species to colonize an area following vegetation disturbances in temperate climates throughout the world. Once fireweed enters a disturbed community, it rapidly becomes abundant.

Foam Flower
Tiarella cordifolia
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 8-12"
Blooms: May
Color: white or light pink
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist and rich, but tolerates drier soil. Good groundcover. A great naturalizer for under trees, foliage is green throughout the season. Companion plant with Trilliums, Virginia Bluebells or Wild Bleeding Heart for added color and texture.

Foxglove Beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis
Light: sun to light shade
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: spring
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Moist to average soil, wonderful in mass plantings or meadow gardens. Hardy and easy to grow, divide clumps every few years.

Golden Alexanders
Zizia aurea
Light: sun to light shade
Height: 2-2.5'
Blooms: May-June
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: Deep green foliage topped with golden clusters brightens meadows and wood’s edge. Best for naturalizing in a wet meadow or open woodland. An aggressive grower, Golden Alexanders can be used as a native alternative to pachysandra.

Golden Groundsel
Senecio aureus
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 24-30"
Blooms: May
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Native to wet sunny meadows, this plant easily adapts to partly shaded conditions with dry to average soil. A cluster of basal leaves erupts in a burst of tall golden daisies. Forms a dense groundcover; seeds prolifically.

Goldenseal
Hydrastis canadensis
Light: part to full shade
Height: 8-12"
Blooms: spring
Color: white flowers with shiny red berries
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is slightly acidic, rich and evenly moist. Will tolerate most garden soils. Fertilize moderately and water during prolonged dry spells. Mulching with deciduous hardwood leaves will help mimic native habitat and retain moisture. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: summer
Color: bright blue
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist or wet, rich and slightly alkaline. Will tolerate a variety of soil conditions. A rare true blue color. Attracts humming-birds, butterflies and bees. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Green-eyed Coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 3-7'
Blooms: summer
Color: yellow, green cones (or "eyes")
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Culture and Notes: Not picky about soil conditions; will grow in almost any site. A great cut flower with unique foliage and a butterfly magnet.

Harebell
Campanula rotundifolia
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: June-September
Color: blue to purple
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is well-drained and sandy or rocky. Delicate purple-blue flowers will bloom throughout the season. A good re-seeder.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
Light: part to full shade
Height: 18-30"
Blooms: late spring to early summer
Color: green to purple
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Culture and Notes: Unique flower disappears to form a cluster of bright red berries. Ideal soil is rich and moist or wet. Will re-seed happily under the right conditions.

Marsh Marigold
Caltha palustris
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 6-12"
Blooms: early spring
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: A bright yellow harbinger of spring the Marsh Marigold adds vibrant color to boggy areas. Prefers moist or wet soil, standing water is okay in spring. May go dormant after flowering.

Mayapple
Podophyllum pelatum
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 8-16"
Blooms: late spring
Color: pearly white
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Culture and Notes: Mayapple is an excellent bold and carefree groundcover; spreading with stiff, forking rhizomes. The paired leaves protect a pale white flower that huddles beneath, protected by the harsher elements and sun. Once established can grow in almost any soil condition.

Meadow Rue
Thalictrum dioicum
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: spring
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Meadow Rue is one of the first spring bloomers. Ideal soil is moist and rich. Great for woodland’s edge and shady meadow gardens. Good cut flower.

Monkey Flower
Mimulus ringens
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: June-September
Color: lavender
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Culture and Notes: Prefers wet areas such as swamps, streamsides and lakesides, but will grow in dry dusty areas as well. Tolerates most any conditions.

Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum muticum
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: mid to late summer
Color: lavender to white
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Culture and Notes: Deep green foliage with silvery bracts make for a unique bloom display, especially beautiful with Bee Balm. The wonderful fragrance of mint and oregano attracts many pollinators. Prefers moist to average soil and spreads happily. Be sure to water during prolonged periods of drought.

Narrow-Leaf Cattail
Typha latifolia
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: late summer
Color: brown cigar-shaped spikes
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Culture and Notes: Grow in wet soil or water of less than one foot deep. Choose a spot with care, once established cattails are very difficult to remove. Dried spikes last a long time and look very nice in flower arrangements.

New England Aster
Aster novae-angliae
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: August-September
Color: dark purple
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Culture and Notes: Late season blooms are an integral part of the ecology of our overwintering pollinators. Large bright blossoms stand out attracting numerous butterflies. Ideal soil is moist but will tolerate almost any conditions. A great choice for a rain garden. Brilliant fall display when planted with Showy Goldenrod, Dog-Tooth Daisy and the following two asters.

New York Aster
Aster novi-belgii
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 3-4'
Blooms: August-September
Color: light blue
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Culture and Notes: Brightens forest edges and meadows in late summer; light blue flowers mix with the yellows of autumn nicely. Moist to average soil.

New York Ironweed
Vernonia noveboracensis
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 4-8'
Blooms: late summer
Color: deep reddish-purple
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Culture and Notes: Stunning purple flowers make this plant too beautiful to resist! Prefers moist to average soil. A robust grower; be sure to give it some space.

Nodding Lady's Tresses
Spiranthes cernua
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: late fall
Color: crystalline white with evergreen rosettes
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Culture and Notes: This small adaptable orchid is great for boggy areas and will slowly spread to form colonies. Its lovely vanilla-scented blooms attract the last of the hungry pollinators in late fall. Spires of tiny spiraling flowers make this a unique beauty.

Obedient Plant
Physostegia virginiana
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: August-September
Color: pink
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Culture and Notes: Will tolerate most soil conditions with regular moisture. Resembles Snapdragon flowers, excellent for cutting. Not so obedient, will happily take up as much room as you give it. Try companion planting with Great Blue Lobelia, Wild Bee Balm and Black-eyed Susan.

Orange Butterflyweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Light: sun
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: late July
Color: orange to red-orange
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Culture and Notes: Butterflyweed grows well in sandy, dry, open soil. Most of our sandplain habitat has been lost to development making this a rare plant in the Berkshires. Delicious nectar provides important food for Monarch Butterflies. This plant is difficult to transplant because it is tap-rooted, best not to disturb it once established. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Ox-Eye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: July-October
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: Does well in moist or dry conditions. Attracts butterflies in summer and rich sunflower seeds attract birds in fall. Incredibly long-lasting blooms look great in a border perennial garden.

Partridgeberry
Mitchella repens
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 1-2"
Blooms: spring to summer, berries all year
Color: white flowers, red berries
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Culture and Notes: Prefers moist to dry soil, excellent groundcover, green all winter! Can get smothered under leaves but loves a side dressing of pine needles.

Purple Angelica
Angelica atropurpurea
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 4-6'
Blooms: summer
Color: white to pale green
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Culture and Notes: Green foliage with deep red veins can be up to two feet across. Tall round flower umbels rise on purple stems and may reach 8-10” in diameter. This stout biennial prefers a moist site in sandy to clay-like soils with a mixture of sun and shade. Purple Angelica is an important host plant for various Swallowtail Butterfly species. Flowers emit a strong honey scent.

Purple Butterflyweed
Ascelpias incarnata
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: summer
Color: pink to lavender
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist, but will tolerate wet feet. Attracts swarms of butterflies and birds, seed pods provide late fall interest in wildflower gardens. Asclepias is the host plant for Monarch butterfly larvae.

Purple Joe-Pye
Angelica atropurpurea
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 4-8'
Blooms: August-September
Color: pink to purple
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Culture and Notes: Perfect for wet meadows or pondside planting. Often found with boneset in the wild. All three purple Joe-Pyes are slightly different in color and size, however most of the time we can’t tell which is which.

Purple Milkweed
Asclepias purpurescens
Light: sun
Height: 3-4'
Blooms: July-August
Color: purple-pink
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Culture and Notes: Flowers heads droop with the weight of sweetly scented blossoms, supported by stalwart stems. Like the common and swamp milkweeds, it’s a vital host for monarch caterpillars. The purple flowers themselves seem to blossom with nectar-hungry butterflies.

Purple Trillium
Trillium erectum
Light: light shade
Height: 6-20"
Blooms: May
Color: maroon
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Culture and Notes: This incredibly long-lived woodland native can take seven years from seed to flower. Purple Trillium will form a thick woodland carpet after establishing itself in moist, acidic soil.

Purple-Stemmed Aster
Aster puniceus
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-6'
Blooms: September-October
Color: sky blue to lavender
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Culture and Notes: Dark purple stems offer great fall color. In the right conditions this aster will be covered in flowers. Attracts butterflies and birds. Ideal soil is moist or wet (likes wet feet).

Rue Anemone
Anemonella thalictroides
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 4-8"
Blooms: spring to early summer
Color: white to rose pink
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Culture and Notes: Moist to average, well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soil, fern-like foliage with delicate flowers, dormant mid-summer. Charm like no other, keep moist for a longer bloom period. Companion plant with Creeping Phlox.

Showy Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: August-September
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: Wands of blazing yellow on deep red stems add color in late summer. Does well in a variety of garden soils as long as it’s well-drained. Plant with New York Aster, New England Aster, New York Ironweed and Ox-eye Sunflower for deep-hued informal fall color. Not aggressive like other Goldenrods.

Solomon's Seal
Polygonatum commutatum
Light: shade to part shade
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: spring
Color: white flowers with blue-black berries
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Culture and Notes: Elegantly arching stems bear glossy leaves and green-tipped bells, which ripen into blue-black fruit in late summer. Although commonly a woodland plant, it will also grow in full sun if consistently moist. Unique foliage plant for shade gardens. Companion plant with ferns, Black Cohosh or Wild Ginger. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Spikenard
Aralia racemosa
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-5'
Blooms: summer
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Tiny white flowers with purple-red showy berries in fall makes this a great addition to any garden! Has a branching habit preferring moist, fertile soil along streams and borders of woods.

Spring Beauty
Claytonia caroliniana
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 3-6"
Blooms: early spring
Color: whitish-pink to strong pink
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist but well-drained, slightly acidic or neutral. This spring ephemeral that will form dense carpets of candy-striped flowers. Corms are easy to transplant when dormant. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.

Star Flowered False Solomon Seal
Smilacina stellata
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: May
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Star-shaped flowers release a strong, deliciously sweet perfume. Can be used as a groundcover in woodlands or shade gardens. Can be aggressive.

Stiff Aster
Aster linariifolius
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 1'
Blooms: September
Color: violet
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Culture and Notes: Well-suited to dry rock garden conditions. Shiny needle-like leaves are like no other aster. For an amazing display companion plant with Wild Stonecrop, Fire Pink and Orange Butterflyweed.

Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 12-30"
Blooms: early summer
Color: blue-violet blooms
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Culture and Notes: Prefers gritty, well-drained, slightly acidic soil. This nitrogen- fixing legume is also a butterfly magnet. Doesn’t like disturbance so plant where it can naturalize freely. Companion plant with Little Bluestem.

Thimbleberry
Anemone virginiana
Light: part shade
Height: 12-18"
Blooms: May-June
Color: greenish-white
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Culture and Notes: Suitable for dry-moist, open woods or half shade. Can tolerate full sun if soil is moist. Slender, upright habit with palm-shaped leaves. Inch-wide flowers are a sophisticated white suffused with pale green. A good plant for blending with sedges and broad leaved plants.

Three-tooth Cinquefoil
Potentilla tridentata
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4"
Blooms: July
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: A wonderful choice for a difficult spot in your garden. It forms a running groundcover in dry, poor soils. Leaves are dark, glossy green in summer and turn blood red in fall.

Trailing Arbutus
Epigaea repens
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 3-4"
Blooms: May
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Happiest when tucked into a shaded rock garden with slightly acid soil. This diminutive perennial forms low mats of leathery leaves with fragrant ½" flowers that blush with their own beauty. A woodland gem.

Turtlehead
Chelone glabra
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: July - September
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is moist or wet and rich, but will tolerate most regular garden soils with regular watering. Attracts butterflies. Grows in dense terminal spikes; blooms somewhat resembles the head of a turtle. This late bloomer is definitely worth the wait.

Twinflower
Linnaea borealis
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 1-5"
Blooms: spring
Color: white-tinged with pink
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Culture and Notes: A beautiful groundcover that grows great on mossy logs. Twinflower thrives in moist, rich, acidic soil.

White Trillium
Trillium grandiflorum
Light: light shade to shade
Height: 8-20"
Blooms: spring
Color: white fading to pink
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Culture and Notes: Prefers moist, slightly acidic soil. In time, forms a beautiful woodland carpet. Seven years from seed to flower.

White Wood Aster
Aster divaricatus
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: fall
Color: white flowers with rose centers
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Culture and Notes: Any soil will do, adds fall color for 4-8 weeks!

Wild Bee Balm
Monarda fistulosa
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: summer
Color: lavender to pink
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Culture and Notes: Provides a stunning summer floral display with a pleasant smell that attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Ideal soil is moist but will tolerate dry soil.

Wild Bleeding Heart
Dicentra eximia
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 12-18"
Blooms: mid-spring through summer
Color: light pink
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is rich, light and moist. Graceful fern-like foliage. Will keep blooming if flowers are cut back before forming seed pods.

Wild Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
Light: sun to shade
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: late spring - early summer
Color: red-orange
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Culture and Notes: Will tolerate many soils but must be well-drained. Cut back flowers for second bloom. Lives in almost all light conditions. Attracts hummingbirds.

Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 6-8"
Blooms: spring
Color: purple-brown
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Culture and Notes: Attractive woodland groundcover. Companion plant with Maiden Hair Fern, Trilliums or Foam Flower. Ideal soil is moist and rich. Rare or endangered in New England.

Wild Pink
Silene caroliniana
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 4-8"
Blooms: late spring
Color: light to dark pink
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Culture and Notes: A long-blooming plant with a low mound of dark leaves. Great in rock gardens, borders or meadows with smaller plants, drought tolerant. Companion plant with Wild Stonecrop, Blue-eyed Grass and Stiff Aster.

Wild Senna
Senna hebecarpa
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 3-7'
Blooms: summer
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Large golden flowers spring up every year like towering exclamations to the power of life! Wild senna is extremely valuable for a dramatic vertical effect for a larger garden. Likes moist soil, anywhere from bottomlands and meadows to roadsides. Very adaptable.

Wild Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 6"
Blooms: May-June
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is well-drained and sandy. An excellent rock garden plant. Rapid spreader, good groundcover. Becomes a carpet of white during bloom. Plant with Fire Pink, Purple Love Grass, Blue-eyed Grass or Harebell.

Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Light: sun to shade
Height: 3-6"
Blooms: flowers in spring, fruit in summer
Color: white flowers with small edible red berries
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Culture and Notes: Tolerates many soil conditions, an aggressive groundcover, with beautiful red fall color and delicious fruit. The more sun it gets, the more fruit it bears. Mix into a naturalized lawn.

Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens
Light: part shade to full shade
Height: 3-6"
Blooms: summer
Color: pink-tinged red berries
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is dry, well-drained and acidic. Moist soil is okay. Will make a loose carpet over time. Edible berries are minty sweet.

Wood Anemone
Anemone quinquefolia
Light: sun to shade
Height: 1-2'
Blooms: early summer
Color: white flowers
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Culture and Notes: Prefers moist to average soil, vigorous grower once established. Great understory or groundcover. Rare or endangered in New England.

Woodland Sunflower
Helianthus divaricatus
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: August-October
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Ideal soil is sandy and well-drained, but will tolerate a variety of soil conditions. Blooms can last up to several months.

Wreath Goldenrod
Solidago caesia
Light: sun to shade
Height: 1-3'
Blooms: fall
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: Arching flowers are gorgeous at the woodland’s edge or in shade gardens. Any soil will do; not aggressive like other goldenrods.

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