Science

Comparative Trials Program

The following plants are currently under evaluation at the Chicago Botanic Garden

  • Abelia (abelia)
  • Ajuga (bugleweed)
  • Anemone (fall anemone) 
  • Astrantia (masterwort)
  • Baptisia (blue false indigo)
  • Bergenia (bergenia)
  • Buddleja (butterfly bush)
  • Calamagrostis (feather reed)
  • Calycanthus (sweetshrub)
  • Carex (sedge)
  • Chrysanthemum (hardy mum)
  • Deschampsia (hair grass)
  • Echinacea (coneflower)
  • Helleborus (hellebore) 
  • Hibiscus (rose mallow)
  • Hydrangea arborescens
  • Kniphofia (red-hot poker)
  • Leucanthemum (Shasta daisy)
  • Phlox (spring phlox)
  • Physocarpus (ninebark)      
  • Pulmonaria (lungwort)
  • Salvia (hardy sage)
  • Sanguisorba (burnet)
  • Silphium (rosinweed)