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Common Name

Height

Sun

Part Shade

Shade

Notes

Perennial Grasses

Information for neighborhood residents Funded Project Research

Scientific Name

Side-Oats Grama

Bouteloua curtipendula 'Trailway

1-3'

x

Little Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparius 'Blaze'

1-3'

x

Indian Grass

Sorghastrum nutans

3-6'

x

Herbaceous Perennials

x

x

Nodding Wild Onion

Allium cernuum

12-18"

x

x

drier garden areas

Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

1-3'

x

x

x

Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

4-10"

x

x

Butterfly Milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

1-3'

x

New England Aster

Aster novae-angliae

1-4'

x

Fringed Sedge

Carex crinita

1-3'

Palm Sedge

Carex muskingumensis

1-3'

Turtlehead

Chelone glabra

1-3'

x

Pink Turtlehead

Chelone obliqua

1-3'

x

Pale Purple Coneflower

Echinacea pallida

2-4'

x

x

Purple Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

2-3'

x

x

Savanna JoePye

Eupatorium purpureum

3-6'

x

x

Strawberry

Fragaria sp.

Prairie Smoke

Geum triflorum

6-12"

x

False Sunflower

Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Sun'

2-5'

x

Rough Blazing Star

Liatris aspera

2-3'

x

Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis

2-4'

x

x

mixed success; poisonous

Great Blue Lobelia

Lobelia siphilitica

1-4'

x

x

mixed success; use in drier garden areas

Monkey Flower

Mimulus ringens

12-18"

x

x

mixed success

Bearded Foxglove

Penstemon digitalis

1-4'

x

Woodland Phlox

Phlox divaricata

6-12"

x

x

mixed success

Jacob's Ladder

Polemonium reptans

9-24"

x

x

mixed success

Yellow Coneflower

Ratibida pinnata

1-4'

x

Black-Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta

1-3'

x

Wild Petunia

Ruellia humilis

6-18"

x

Cup Plant

Silphium perfoliatum

3-7'

x

Stiff Goldenrod

Solidago rigida

1-4'

x

Spiderwort

Tradescanthia ohiensis

1-4'

x

Hoary Vervain

Verbena stricta 'Prairie Candles'

1-2'

x

Heartleaved Golden Alexander

Zizia aptera

1-2'

x

drier garden areas

mixed success x

x

x

x

x

x

drier garden areas mixed success

x

mixed success

Failed Plants in Stormwater Gardens (not recommended for use) Silky Aster

Aster sericeus

1-2'

x

Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

6-12'

x

Purple Prairie Clover

Petalostemum [Dalea] purpureum

1-2'

x

Downy Prairie Phlox

Phlox pilosa

6-18'

x

Culver's Root

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Albo-Rosea'

3-5'

x

x

x

Recommended plants for near-stream areas in Ames Recommended landscape plants for yards in Ames Invasive (not recommended) plants of concern in College Creek Area

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