Drought, Xeric & Dry Soil Plants

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  • Geum triflorum Prairie smoke, Old Man’s whiskers Z 1-8

    Pale purplish-pink dangling cup-shaped flowers in spring to early summer, followed by hair-like, pink seed heads like the hair on a troll doll.

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    Pale purplish-pink dangling cup-shaped flowers in spring to early summer, followed by hair-like, pink seed heads like the hair on a troll doll.

    Size: 10" x 8" but slow to grow to this width
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: all of northern No. America, Wisconsin native
    Awards: Great Plants for Great Plains

    Introduced to gardens in 1609.  Many Native American medicinal uses.  Blackfeet used it to cure coughs, skin sores and wounds on people and horses, swollen eyes, canker sores, and fuzzy thinking in people. Crushed, ripe seeds made a perfume.  Okanagan-Colville women made a love potion from the roots, as well as curing vaginal yeast infections.  The Eastern Cascades of Canada brewed a medicinal tea for eye-wash, sore throats and general aches from the plant. Sioux used it for many ailments:  sore eyes, canker sores, sore throat, perfume, wounds, and added it to mixtures of plants for smoking Collected by Meriwether Lewis on June 12, 1806 on the Weippe Prairie, not far from the villages of the Nez Perce in Idaho.

  • Globularia cordifolia Globe daisy, Wedge leaved globularia Z 5-9

    Dense, blue, globe-shaped umbels in spring

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    Dense, blue, globe-shaped umbels in spring, mat forming, leathery, spoon-shaped leaves.

    Size: 5” x 12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: alpine pastures in Switzerland and Pyrenees
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Collected before 1753.  “The most desirable (Globularia) for the rockwork is the neat G. cordifolia which is a little prostrate trailing shrub with bluish flowers.” William Robinson 1879.

  • Goniolimon speciosum syn. Statice speciosa, Limonium Dwarf Statice Z 3-9

    Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves.  In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.

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    Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves.  In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.

    Size: 10-12’ X 8”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Steppes of Eurasia: Russia, Siberia, Mongolia & western China

    Collected by German naturalist Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755)1st described in 1753 then named and renamed several times.  Pictured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 18. No. 656 1803.

  • Gypsophila repens ‘Rosea’ Creeping baby’s breath Z 4-7

    Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves  from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.

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    Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.

    Size: 8" x 10-12"
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
    Native: Mountains of central and southern Europe

    Gypso is Greek meaning “gypsum or lime.”  Phylos means “loving.” Plant requires limey (alkaline) soil.  Discovered in Siberia in 1774.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Hyperion’

    Midsummer, fragrant lemon yellow trumpets

    $8.45/bareroot

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    Midsummer, fragrant lemon yellow trumpets

    Size: 36" x 12"
    Care: Sun, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.

    Hybrid origin, bred in 1925 and still popular today.

  • Hesperaloe parviflora Red Yucca Z 6-9

    Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer

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    Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer

    Size: 3’ x 5’
    Care: sun moist well-drained to dry soil
    Native: Europe, west & central Asia
    Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies & hummingbirds. Deer and rabbit tolerant,

    Named by Dr. George Engelmann, a German physician and plant fanatic who emigrated to America in the early 1800’s, settling in St. Louis.

  • Hunnemannia fumariifolia Goldencup, Mexican Tulip Poppy Z 9-11, Annual in colder areas

    All summer and fall sunny, crepe-papery petals with jagged edges center around orange anthers all carried above thin-leaved blue-grey foliage.

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    All summer and fall sunny, crepe-papery petals with jagged edges center around orange anthers all carried above thin-leaved blue-grey foliage.

    Size: 6-12" x 6-12"
    Care: sun in moist, well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: highlands of Mexico, TX, NM & AZ

    Described and named by English botanist Robert Sweet (1783-1835) in The British Flower Garden vol. 3 (1828). Named for John Hunnemannia

  • Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’, Annabelle hydrangea, Snowball hydrangea Z 4-9

    Flowering from late June to October, softball sized or bigger ivory heads fade to pale green. Toughest, easiest hydrangea to grow.

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    Flowering from late June to October, softball sized or bigger ivory heads fade to pale green. Toughest, easiest hydrangea to grow.

    Size: 3-5’ x 3-5’
    Care: Shade to sun in clay to well-drained soil. Prune back in early spring to 12-16” above the soil level.
    Native: Southeastern US
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal Plant Award.

    Hydrangea is Greek from hydor meaning water and aggeion meaning vessel referring to the cup shaped fruit.  The dried root was used as medicine – as a cathartic and diuretic.  ‘Annabelle,’ the showy form, first collected around 1900 near Anna Illinois.  The story of the ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea begins in southern Illinois near the town of Anna.  In 1910, Harriet Kirkpatrick, went on a horseback ride along a wooded trail in Union County and noticed a beautiful native hydrangea with abnormally large, snowball-like blooms.  Together with her sister-in-law, Amy Kirkpatrick, she went back to dig up the native shrub and transplant it into her yard in Anna.  Neighbors and friends noticed the showy plant and the Kirkpatrick family shared specimens of the easily transplantable shrub, spreading its progeny throughout Anna and other towns in Illinois.

    Given its wide local popularity, easy transplanting and culture, Mrs. Kirkpatrick contacted the Burpee Seed Company to see if there was interest in developing the new variety commercially.  Unbeknownst to the Kirkpatrick’s, a recent improved cultivar of Hydrangea arborescens had been released in 1906.  E. G. Hill brought the ‘Snowhill’ hydrangea into production from a wild specimen found near Yellow Springs, Ohio with similar abnormally large, snowball-like flowers, but an earlier bloom time.

    So, for the next 50 years, ‘Annabelle would be an unnamed, but locally poplar cultivar, that was distributed by word of mouth throughout southern Illinois, finally reaching Urbana around 1935, based on the first recorded account.

    It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the Kirkpatrick’s find gained the attention of University of Illinois professor and renowned plantsman, Dr. Joseph C. McDaniel.  In 1960, McDaniel rediscovered ‘Annabelle’ by noticing it in cultivation in Urbana, IL.  He traced it back to Anna, IL, collected samples for propagation, named the cultivar and released it for commercial production in 1962.

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