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  • Allium cernuum 'Wine Drop'
    … Nodding onions are petite natives found growing in praries and margins of wooded areas. They form petite clumps of foliage with narrow leaves. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold'
    … milkweed ( A. sullivantii ), and swamp milkweed ( A. incarnata ), midwestern native perennials in the Garden's permanent collection. Asclepias flowers form seedpods from which seeds with silky …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Buddleja alternifolia
    … needs full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of 15 feet. In May to June it produces showy lilac-purple blooms that attract butterflies. The drooping …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Fothergilla gardenii 'Klmtwo'
    … not far from Chicago. Fragrant white bottlebrushes cover this 3-foot-by-3-foot deciduous shrub in May. Autumn features a montage of orange, gold, and red leaves just before they fall. This …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Galanthus nivalis
    … shade and moist soil conditions to reach a height of 9 inches by late April to early May. In late winter they produce showy, fragrant white blooms with green markings on the inner whorl …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Galanthus nivalis 'Viridi-Apice'
    … distinguish this cultivar from all other snowdrops. As soon as temperatures begin to warm in late winter, this cultivar springs from the frozen ground and perfumes the air with the …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Galanthus nivalis 'White Dream'
    … white stripe on the green leaves. Snowdrops are among the earliest harbingers of spring in the cool temperate zones. On sunny late-winter days, the outer petals "flare"out, releasing …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Dicentra 'Luxuriant'
    … Dicentra ‘Luxuriant’ grows 15 “ tall and blooms in late spring with red heart shaped flowers which hang from long, leafless stems. Each flower …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Disporopsis pernyi
    … produces stems 12 to 16 inches tall with alternate lance-shaped leaves with parallel veins. In late spring, small, white, bell-shaped flowers with green tips dangle beneath the leaves …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Disporopsis pernyi 'Heronswood Form'
    … produces stems 12 to 16 inches tall with alternate lance-shaped leaves with parallel veins. In late spring, small, white, bell-shaped flowers with green tips dangle beneath the leaves …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant