herbaceous ornamentals plant list 3

leucanthemum x superbum

shasta daisy

cut flower gardens; evergreen; bright green; mixed perennial border; 12" in length

leaves: serrated; almost clasping towards flowers; glaborous

bloom: ray and disc; bloom May-June; 4" across

dianthus gratianopolitanus

cheddar pink

groundcover; tough; SMELL; evergreen

leaves: linear; needlelike; silver; 1-2" foliage

blooms: 1-2 blooms per group; jagged edged blooms

dianthus chinensis

china pink

hardy annual; edible!

leaves: grass like foliage; green foliage

blooms: 3-5 bloom grouping; white pink purple or red

dianthus barbatus

sweet william

short lived perennial; cut flower; edible

leaves: less linear; green foliage; 1-3" tall

blooms: "beard" like sepals; big flower clusters; continuous blooms

achillea millefolium

common yarrow

not native; naturalized; almost groundcover; little aggressive; dry infertile soil

leaves: pennately divided; green foliage; mass foliage; smell leaves

blooms: bloom May-June; finer texture

achillea filipendolia

fernleaf yarrow

foliage rot common; silver foliage; forms clumps; smell leaves; cut flower; dry infertile soil; more compact

leaves: fern like; pennately divided; more width to foliage

bloom: 2-3" bloom; looks like disc

baptisia species

wild indigo

SHAKE IT!; native; dry infertile soil; almost shrub; seed needs to be scarfied

leaves: ternately compound; foliage seperate from flower stalk; alternate; entire margin; gray cast

echinacea purpera

purple coneflower

basal mound of foliage; dry infertile

leaves: little pubescence; scratchy leaves; random teeth

bloom: sharp disc; reflex petals; one bloom per stem

hemerocallis hybrids

day lily

tall; basal mound of foliage

leaves: sword like; midvein is lower than margin (waterslide); entire; parallel veination

bloom: blooms on a scape; 7-9 blooms per stem

helleborous orientalis

lenten rose

shade plant; dry tolerant; independant plant; colonize

leaves: tiny teeth; palmately compound; thick; spotted stalk; crunchy

bloom: color is sepal not petal; stemless no branch

digitalis purperea

foxglove

basal mound of foliage

leaves: super soft; rugous texture on top; raised veins on underside

bloom: open throat; early bloom; central stalk of bloom; insect landing pad

bletilla striata

hardy orchid

non epiphite; colonizing; individual stems

leaves: ridged underside; pleated leaves; sheathing petiole; lanceolate leaves

blooms: 2 ft tall in bloom; 9-12 blooms per stem

polygonatum odoratum 'varigatum'

fragrant solomons seal

single stem; tough; colonizing; black berry

leaves: arching stem; ovate; alternate, variegated margin; entire margin; glaborous; rough underside

blooms: bloom under stem; bell shaped flowers; 2 flowers per node

aquilegia x hybrida

columbine

basal mound of foliage; "big cilantro"

leaves: ternate ternately compound; lobed; palmate; gray cast

blooms: spurs on underside of bloom

lysimachia nummularia 'aurea'

creeping jenny

groundcover

leaves: charteruse (idk how to spell that and nobody is allowed to comment on it); ovate