Perennial Photo Gallery Page 6
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Geum sp. – Avens – (Rosaceae – rose family includes Alchemilla, Potentilla, Fragaria). Geums have basal rosettes of pinnate, wrinkled leaves with toothed or wrinkled margins. Open, saucer shaped flowers in shades of yellow, orange, pink or red. |
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Verbascum ‘Bold Queen’ – Bold Queen mullein – (Scrophulariaceae). Rosette forming plant producing 36" stalks of white flowers with mauve centers. The outward-facing, saucer-shaped flowers of mulleins have 5, wide spreading lobes. Individual flowers are short-lived but they are very numerous and flower over a long period. Generally biennials. |
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Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ – Magnus purple coneflower – (Asteraceae). See white form description above. Reliable summer bloomer that complements other flower colors. Long-lasting cut flowers. Magnus has flowerheads to 7 inches that have more horizontal ray florets than other cultivars. The ray petals are deep purple and disk florets are dark orange. This plant was chosen Perennial Plant of the Year in 1998. |
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Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ – White Swan coneflower – (Asteraceae). Bold, stiff plants from plains and E. North America. Erect, hairy stems with linear, bristly dark-green leaves. Solitary, daisy-like flowers with prominent, cone-shaped, brownish-yellow to orange central disks. White Swan has white flowerheads to 4.5 inches with orange-brown disks. |
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Persicaria affinis or Polygonum affine – Himalayan knotweed or fleeceflower – (Polygonaceae or buckwheat family includes Rheum, Eriogonum). Basal leaves and spikes of long-lasting, funnel or cup-shaped white, pink or red flowers. |
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Caryopteris clandonensis ‘Dark Knight’ – Blue mist spirea – (Verbenaceae). Aromatic, deciduous shrub from the Himalayas with opposite, simple leaves and small, blue to purple flowers borne in terminal or axillary panicles or cymes. Dark Night has silvery gray leaves and dark blue flowers. |
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Oenothera speciosa ‘Siskiyou’– Siskiyou evening primrose – (Onagraceae, evening primrose family includes Gaura, Fuchsia and Zauschneria). Alternate, more or less lance-shaped leaves. The white, pink or yellow flowers are fragrant and produced over long periods in summer. Flowers are usually saucer or cup-shaped with a long tube and 4 petals. Individual flowers open at dawn or at dusk and fade quickly. Siskiyou has pink flowers to 2 inches across. |
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Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling butterflies’ – Pink gaura – (Onagraceae). From the moist prairies of N. America. Alternate, lance shaped, spooned, mostly basal leave. Bear airy panicles of irrefularly star-shaped, whhite or pinkish, 4 petaled flowers often with prominent stamens. |
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Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Early Sunrise’ – Tickseed – (Asteraceae). Early Sunrise produces solitary 2.5 inch flowerheads with semi-double, deep yellow ray florets with unevenly cut outer margins and darker yellow disk florets flushed with orange. Grows to 18". |
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Delphinium grandiflorum ‘Blue Butterfly’ – Delphinium – (Ranunculaceae). The belladonna group has elf-capped shaped single flowers on loose branches. Blue Butterfly is stocky with bright blue flowers. |
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Oenothera fruticosa – Sundrops – (Onagraceae). An erect perennial with deep yellow flowers and reddish stems growing 12-36 inches. |
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Centranthus ruber ‘Albus’ – White valerian (Valerianaceae). |
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Photographs courtesy of Carl Wilson and Judy Sedbrook.
Plant list provided courtesy of Greg Foreman, Lakewood Parks and Recreation.
