Re: native prairie plants
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  • Subject: Re: native prairie plants
  • From: D* <g*@sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 15:12:01 -0700 (PDT)
Well that's the thing about native plants.  You never know what the heck they
are really gonna do, although that is somewhat true with 'fancier' plants
too.
 
Prairie Smoke here doesn't multiply much.  But I have seen it really take off
in other areas.  Don't let the pictures fool you.  It is a tiny plant.  You
will never see it in the distance.
 
Getting Ironweed from a nursery it could be anything.....
 
Does it have hairlike tips? - Vernonia noveboracensis  also known as New York
Ironweed
 
Are leaves downy on underside and bracts without long hairlike tips? Vernonia
altissima also known as Tall ironweed. Native in your area.
 
Leaves smooth on both sides?  vernonia fasciculata - also known as western
ironweed - this one blooms July where the others are more like Aug...
 
I must say tho.... natives have their place in this world, and there isn't
anything more attractive than a field in blooms.... but I found a single area
in a small yard sometimes leaves it looking weedy rather than breath taking.
 
Donna

--- On Sun, 5/16/10, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:


From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Subject: [CHAT] native prairie plants
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:36 PM


I picked up a couple of plants at a local nursery.  Prairie Smoke, Geum
triflorum, I was vaguely familiar with because I remember Donna talking about
starting it in a greenhouse several years ago.  Pretty thing.  I note that it
spreads by rhizomes - is it a fast spreader?

The other one was in a small pot and labeled Ironweed.  Though I know that it
is a Vernonia, I don't know which species.  Can anyone tell me which species
would MOST commonly use the name Ironweed?  I'd like to get some idea of
ultimate size before planting it.
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
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