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Genera

A

Acanthus: bear's breech
Acorus: sweet flag
Actinidia: hardy kiwi fruit; bower vine; kolomikta vine; tara vine
Adiantum: northern maidenhair fern
Agastache: Giant hyssop
Ajuga: Bugleweed
Akebia: five-leaved akebia
Allium: onion; chives
Ammophila: American beachgrass
Amphicarpaea: hog peanut
Amsonia: Arkansas blue-star; blue star; thread-leaf blue star; willow amsonia
Andropogon: big bluestem; turkey-foot
Anemone: Canada anemone
Antennaria: pussytoes
Anthoxanthum: sweet vernal grass
Apios: Indian potato; groundnut
Aquilegia: Columbine
Aralia: sarsparilla
Arctostaphylos: bearberry; kinnikinick
Arenaria
Arisaema
Aristolochia
Armeria: sea pink
Aruncus: Goatsbeard
Arundinaria: canebrake bamboo; large cane; small canebrake bamboo; southern cane; switch cane
Arundo: giant reed; Italian reed; cana brava
Asarum: Wild ginger
Asclepias: butterfly weed; swamp milkweed
Asimina: pawpaw
Aster: aster
Athyrium: lady fern
Atrichum: (moss)

B

Bambusa: bamboo
Baptisia: False indigo
Begonia: begonia
Betula: birch
Bignonia: cross vine
Boltonia: (aster-like) boltonia
Bouteloua: sideoats grama
Buchloe: buffalo grass

C

Calamagrostis: reed grass
Calla: water calla; wild calla
Callicladium: (moss)
Caltha: marsh marigold; cowslip
Campanula: bluebells of Scotland; harebell
Campsis: trumpet creeper; trumpet vine
Camptosorus: walking fern
Carex: sedge
Cassia: Senna
Ceanothus: New Jersey tea; red root;wild snowball
Celastrus
Cephalanthus: buttonbush
Cerastium: Chickweed
Ceratostigma: hardy plumbago
Cercis: eastern redbud tree
Chamaedaphne: cassandra; leatherleaf
Chamaemelum: Chamomile
Chasmanthium: northern sea oats
Cheilanthes: hairy lipfern
Chelone: Lyon's turtlehead; red turtlehead; turtle-head
Chionanthus: fringetree
Chrysanthemum: ox-eye daisy; white daisy
Chrysogonum: golden star
Chrysopsis: Golden aster
Cladonia: reindeer moss
Clethra: summersweet; sweet pepperbush
Climacium: tree moss, umbrella moss
Convallaria: lily-of-the-valley; pink-flowered lily-of-the-valley
Coptis: cankerroot; goldthread
Coreopsis: tickseed; stiff coreopsis
Cornus: Asian flowering dogwood; bunchberry; flowering dogwood; kousa dogwood; pagoda dogwood; alternate-leaved dogwood
Cymbopogon: citronella grass; lemon grass
Cyperus: umbrella sedge
Cystopteris: brittle fern; fragile fern

D

Danthonia: junegrass
Decodon: water loosestrife; water willow
Delosperma: hardy ice plant
Dennstaedtia: boulder fern; hay-scented fern
Deschampsia: tufted hair grass
Dianthus: Pink
Dicentra: wild bleeding-heart
Diervilla: bush honeysuckle
Dionaea: Venus's flytrap
Dioscorea: Chinese yam; cinnamon vine; wild yam
Dryopteris: eastern wood-fern; evergreen woodfern

E

Echinacea: purple coneflower
Elaeagnus: wolfberry; silverberry
Empetrum: black crowberry
Epigaea: Mayflower; trailing arbutus
Epilobium: fireweed
Epimedium: bishop's cap
Equisetum: scouring rush
Eragrostis: love grass
Erianthus: Ravenna grass
Erigeron: Fleabane
Eriophorum: rough cotton grass
Euonymus: running strawberry bush
Eupatorium: Joe-Pye-weed; boneset; hardy ageratum; mist flower

F

Fargesia: (clump-forming bamboo); dragon's head bamboo; fountain bamboo; umbrella bamboo
Festuca: blue fescue
Fragaria: strawberry

G

Gaillardia: Blanket flower
Galium: sweet woodruff
Gaultheria: checkerberry; salal; shallon; lemon leaf; teaberry; wintergreen
Gaylussacia: black huckleberry
Gelsemium: yellow jessamine
Geranium: wild geranium
Geum: chocolate root; water avens
Gillenia: Indian physic; bowman's root
Goodyera: orchid
Gymnocarpium: oak fern
Gypsophila: clumping baby's breath

H

Halesia: Carolina silverbell tree
Hamamelis: common witch hazel
Hedyotis: bluets; Quaker ladies
Helianthus: Sunflower
Helictotrichon: blue oat grass
Hemerocallis: daylily
Herniaria: herniary
Heuchera: rock geranium
Hibanobambusa: bamboo
Hibiscus
Hierochloe: Seneca grass; holy grass; sweet grass; vanilla grass
Hypoxis: star grass
Hystrix: bottlebrush grass

I

Indocalamus: bamboo
Iris: iris; blue flag; yellow flag
Itea: Virginia willow; sweetspire; tassel-white

J

Juncus: Japanese-mat rush; soft rush

K

Kalmia: mountain laurel; calico bush; sheep laurel
Kerria: kerria

L

Lamiastrum: yellow archangel
Lamium: Dead nettle
Laportea: wood nettle
Laurentia: blue star creeper
Lavandula: lavender
Ledum: Labrador tea
Liatris: Blazing star
Lilium: Turk's-cap lily
Lindera: spicebush
Liriope: creeping lilyturf
Lobelia: cardinal flower; great blue lobelia
Lonicera: honeysuckle
Ludwigia: False loosestrife
Luzula: common wood-rush
Lycopodium: ground cedar; tree club moss
Lygodium: climbing fern; Hartford fern
Lyonia: swamp andromeda
Lysimachia: loosestrife

M

Magnolia: sweet bay magnolia
Maianthemum: Canada mayflower
Manfreda: false aloe
Marshallia: large-flowered Barbara's button
Matteuccia: American ostrich fern; ostrich fern
Meehania: Meehan's mint; creeping mint
Melissa: lemon balm
Mentha: Corsican mint; applemint; horsemint; peppermint; spearmint
Mertensia: Bluebells; lungwort
Mimulus: Alleghany monkeyflower
Miscanthus: silver grass; maiden grass; variegated eulalia; maiden grass
Mitchella: partridgeberry
Monarda: Oswego tea; bee balm; dotted mint; horsemint; wild bergamot
Morus: mulberry
Muhlenbergia: purple hairgrass
Musa: hardy banana

N

Nepeta: catmint
Nymphaea: fragrant water lily

O

Oenothera: showy evening primrose
Onoclea: sensitive fern
Ophiopogon: dwarf lillyturf; mondo grass
Opuntia: prickly pear; Indian fig; chain-link cactus; cholla
Origanum: marjoram; oregano
Osmunda: cinnamon fern; interrupted fern; royal fern

P

Pachysandra: Alleghany pachysandra; Japanese pachysandra
Panicum: switch-grass
Parthenium: wild quinine
Parthenocissus: Virginia creeper; woodbine
Passiflora: passionflower; Maypop; apricot vine
Paxistima: cliff green; mountain lover
Peltandra: arrow-arum; tuckahoe
Pennisetum: Chinese pennisetum
Penstemon: St. Joseph's wand; pine-leaved penstemon
Petasites: fuki; sweet coltsfoot
Phalaris: ribbon grass
Philadelphus: mock orange
Phlox: phlox; flowering moss; ground pink; wild sweet William
Phragmites: variegated common reed grass
Phyllostachys: bamboo
Physostegia: obedient plant
Pleioblastus: bamboo
Podophyllum: Mayapple; wild lemon
Polemonium: Greek valerian; Jacob's ladder; bluebell
Polygonatum: hairy Solomon's-seal
Polygonum: knotweed
Polypodium: polypody
Polystichum: Christmas fern
Polytrichum: (soft haircap moss); common haircap moss
Poncirus: hardy orange; trifoliate orange
Pontederia: pickerel weed
Potentilla: bush cinquefoil; golden cinquefoil; shrubby cinquefoil; three-toothed cinquefoil
Prunus: wild plum; wild cherry
Pseudosasa: bamboo
Psidium: Cattley guava; purple strawberry guava
Pycnanthemum: mountain mint
Pyrola: shinleaf; wild lily-of-the-valley

R

Rhododendron: rosebay rhododendron; great laurel; white swamp azalea
Rosa: Virginia rose
Rubus: purple flowering raspberry
Rudbeckia: coneflower
Ruellia: wild petunia

S

Sagina: Corsican moss
Salvia: lyre-leafed sage; pineapple sage
Sambucus: sweet elderberry
Sasa: bamboo
Sasaella: bamboo
Sassafras: sassafras
Saururus: lizard's tail
Saxifraga: strawberry begonia
Schizachyrium: bunchgrass; little bluestem
Scirpus: bulrush
Sedum: (sedum); (trailing sedum); October plant; Siebold stonecrop; golden moss; wall pepper; wild stonecrop; worm grass; yellow stonecrop
Semiarundinaria: bamboo
Sempervivum: cobweb houseleek; common houseleek; hens-and-chickens
Senecio: golden groundsel
Shibataea: bamboo
Silene
Silphium: cup plant
Sisyrinchium: pointed blue-eyed grass
Solidago: goldenrod
Sorghastrum: Indian grass
Spartina: variegated prairie cordgrass
Sphagnum: sphagnum moss
Spigelia: Indian pink
Spiraea: meadowsweet
Sporobolus: prairie dropseed
Stachys: Betony; hedge nettle; woundwort
Stokesia: Stokes' aster
Stylophorum: celandine poppy; wood poppy
Styrax: Japanese snowbell tree
Symphytum: comfrey

T

Tanacetum: common tansy; golden buttons
Thalia: water canna
Thelypteris: New York fern; marsh fern
Thuidium: feather moss
Thymus: bear's breech
Tiarella: Wherry's foamflower; foamflower
Tradescantia: hairy spiderwort
Tripsacum: eastern gama grass
Typha: cat-tail

U

Urtica: stinging nettle
Uvularia: sessile bellwort; wild oats

V

Vaccinium: cranberry; early sweet blueberry
Verbena: Simpler's joy; blue vervain; rose verbena
Veronica: Speedwell; brooklime
Veronicastrum: culver's root
Vetiveria: khas-khas; khus-khus; vetiver
Viburnum: black haw; highbush cranberry; maple-leaved viburnum; nannyberry; northern arrow-wood; sheepberry; wild raisin; withe-rod viburnum
Vinca: periwinkle
Viola: violet

W

Waldsteinia: barren strawberry; waldsteinia
Woodwardia

Y

Yucca: bear grass, Adam's needle; needle palm, Adam's needle

Z

Zizania: wild rice
Zizia: golden alexanders

Catalog as of February 04, 2010

Sedum

(Crassulaceae - sedum family)

About 600 species of low, succulent herbs and subshrubs. Native to the north temperate zone, and mountains in the tropics. Often cultivated, especially as rock garden plants. Most Sedums will do well as long as they have plenty of sun and a well-drained soil.

acre

evgrn peren • ht 4" • zones 3-10

golden moss; wall pepper

succulent, ground cover, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
n africa, Europe, w Asia

An evergreen creeper, spreading moderately fast to form a dense mat. Small, bright yellow flowers cover the plants in early summer.

cat # 4C6B
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

album

evgrn peren • 4"; fl stalks to 8" • zones 4-10

worm grass

succulent, ground cover, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
e Asia

Evergreen, mat-forming, slow spreading. Bears small white flowers, in summer.

cat # 4C6D
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

kamtschaticum

peren • 4-8" • zones 5-9

(sedum)

succulent, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
e Asia

Upright stems with relatively long, narrow evergreen leaves. Spreads slowly. Yellow flowers to 3/4" across appear in summer.

cat # 4C7B
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

kamtschaticum middendorffianum

peren • 4-8" • zones 5-9

(sedum)

succulent, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
e Asia

Similar to the species, but with narrower leaves, a more dense, upright growth habit, and a very slow rate of spread.

cat # 4C7E
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

reflexum

evgrn peren • 5"; fl stalks to 12" • zones 5-10

yellow stonecrop

edible, succulent, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
Europe

A slow spreading, mat-forming evergreen species. Bears yellow flowers in summer. Leaves are sometimes eaten in soups or salads.

cat # 4C7U
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

sarmentosum

peren • 3" • zones 4-10

(trailing sedum)

succulent, ground cover, rock garden, dry - moist, sun - part shade
Japan, n China

A low, fast-spreading mat-forming trailer. Somewhat tolerant of shade.

cat # 4C8C
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

sexangulare

evgrn peren • 3"; fl stalks to 6" • zones 5-10

(sedum)

succulent, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
Europe, sw Asia

An elegant little plant with tiny evergreen leaves arranged in straight or spiraling rows on the stems. Small yellow flowers in the summer.

cat # 4C8G
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

sieboldii

evgrn peren • 12" • zones 4-10

Siebold stonecrop; October plant

succulent, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
Europe, sw Asia

Upright, with reddish leaves and stems. Spreads slowly. Bears terminal clusters of pink flowers in late summer or early fall.

cat # 4C8H
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

spurium

evgrn peren • 4" • zones 3-9

(sedum)

succulent, ground cover, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
Asia

An evergreen, trailing, mat-forming species of medium growth rate. Unlike most of the trailing Sedums, this species has relatively broad, flat leaves. Bears small pinkish flowers in terminal clusters in summer. Foliage is green in summer, becoming bronze or maroon in winter. Often used as a ground cover.

cat # 4C8L
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

spurium variegatum

evgrn peren • ht 4" • zones 3-9

(sedum)

succulent, ground cover, rock garden, dry - moist, sun
Asia

An evergreen, trailing, mat-forming species of medium growth rate. Unlike most of the trailing Sedums, this species has relatively broad, flat leaves. Bears small pinkish flowers in terminal clusters in summer. Foliage is green in summer with attractive margination in pink and white. Often used as a ground cover.

cat # 4C8K
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

ternatum

evgrn peren • ht 2-4" • zones 4-10

wild stonecrop

native, succulent, ground cover, dry - moist, sun - part shade
e US

Creeping stems, white flowers in spring. A native species, it tends to occur in moist, rocky locations. Adaptable under cultivation, but is more at home with moisture and partial shade, and less tolerant of poor, dry conditions than most Sedums.

cat # 4C8R
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea

ternatum 'Larinem Park'

ht 6" • None • zones 4-8

wild stonecrop

native, succulent, ground cover, dry - moist, sun - part shade
e US

cat # 4C8RG
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea