A large format, fully illustrated, comprehensive guide to growing wildflowers in every region of North America, written by one of the country's leading botanists.
Henry W. Art is director of the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies and director of the Hopkins Memorial Forest. He is the author of several books, including Storey's A Garden of Wildflowers.
Acknowledgments
Part I AN INTRODUCTION TO WILDFLOWERS
Why a Garden of Wildflowers?
What to do with Wildflowers?
Getting a Start
Plant Descriptions
Flowering Season
Wildflower Culture
Wildflower Propagation
Part II SPECIES OF WILDFLOWERS
White baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)
Nodding wild onion (Allium cernuum)
Wild leek (Allium tricoccum)
Leadplant (Amorpha canescens)
Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis)
Pasqueflower (Anemone patens)
Groundnut (Apios americana)
Colorado columbine (Aquilegia caerulea)
Eastern columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Prickly poppy (Argemone munita)
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus)
Wild ginger (Asarum canadense)
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
New England aster (Aste r novae-angliae)
Silky aster (Aster sericeus)
Desert marigold (Baileya multiradiata)
Golden stars (Bloomeria crocea)
Blue dicks (Brodiaea pulchella)
American bellflower (Campanula americana)
Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
Farewell-to-spring (Clarkia amoena)
Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)
Yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis)
Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla)
Lance-leaved coreopsis (Coreopsis laneceolata)
Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
Pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
Showy tick trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
Western shooting star (Dodecatheon clevelandii)
Eastern shooting star (Dodecathoen media)
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Golden yarrow (Eriophyllum conferiflorum)
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Douglas's wallflower (Erysimum capitatum)
Eastern trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata)
Chocolate lily (Fritillaria biflora)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata)
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
Closed gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
Sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
Coralbells (Heuchera sanguinea)
Bluets (Houstonia caerulea)
Old-man-of -the-mountain (Hymenoxys grandiflora)
Standing cypress (Ipomopsis rubra)
Douglas's iris (Iris douglasiana)
Larger blue flag (Iris versicolor)
Goldfields (Lasthenia californica)
Tidy tips (Layia platyglossa)
Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva)
Gayfeather (Liatris pycnostachya)
Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum)
Linanthus (Linanthus grandfloris)
Blue flax (Linum lewisii)
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Sky lupine (Lupinus nanus)
Purple annual lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
Blazing Star (Mentzelia lindleyi)
Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Baby blue-eyes (Nemophila menziesii)
Giant Evening Primrose (Oenothera hookeri)
Missouri evening primrose (Oenothera missouriensis)
Owl's clover (Orthocarpus purpurascens)
Elephantheads (Pedicularis groen landica)
Platte River penstemon (Penstemon cyananthus)
Showy penstemon (Penstemon spectabilis)
Rocky Mountain penstemon (Penstemon strictus)
Purple prairie clover (Petalostemum purpureum)
Purple heliotrope (Phacelia tanacetifolia)
Annual phlox (Phlox drummondii)
False dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana)
Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
Shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica)
Mexican hat (Ratibida columnaris)
Meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica)
Pasture rose (Rose carolina)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Scarlet sage (Salvia coccinea)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Indian pink (Silene californica)
Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum)
False Solomon's seal (Smilacina racemosa)
Desert mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)
Wind poppy (Stylomecon heterophylla)
Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)
Purple trillium (Trillium erectum)
White trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
Southwestern verbena (Verbena gooddingii)
Culver's root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
Mule's ears (Wyethis amplex icaulis)
Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Our Lord's candle (Yucca whipplei)
APPENDICES
A. Suppliers
B. Botanical Gardens
C. Native Plant and Horticultural Societies
D. References
Glossary
Index