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• Camassia quamash Wild Hyacinth, Leichtlin’s Camass Z 4-8

  Mid-spring spikes of 2” pale blue star-shaped flowers rise over grass-like foliage

  

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  Mid-spring spikes of 2” pale blue star-shaped flowers rise over grass-like foliage

  Size: 15” x 12"
  Care: sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil
  Native: Pacific Northwest
  Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Deer & rabbit resistant

  First documented by Lewis & Clark near the Nez Perce village in the Cascade Mountains. Nez Perce hunters gave Clark a cake made with Camassia.  Important food crop for First Americans. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll 1908.

• Carex montana Soft-leaved Sedge Z 4-10

  Soft mounding grass with small brown flower spikes March-April

  

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  Soft mounding grass with small brown flower spikes March-April

  Size: 10” X 10”
  Care: Part sun to shade in well-drained soil
  Native: Europe, Caucasas, West Siberia

  Linnaeus 1753

• Codonopsis ovata syn. Glosocomia ovata syn. Wahlenbergia roylei Kashmir Bellflower, Bonnet Bellflower Z 3-7

  OUT OF STOCK Codonopsis ovata syn. Glosocomia ovata syn. Wahlenbergia roylei   Kashmir Bellflower, Bonnet Bellflower Z 3-7 Large, single, pendulous, milky-blue bell-shaped flowers flared at the tips. Blooms July-August.

  

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  Codonopsis ovata syn. Glosocomia ovata syn. Wahlenbergia roylei   Kashmir Bellflower, Bonnet Bellflower Z 3-7
  Large, single, pendulous, milky-blue bell-shaped flowers flared at the tips. Blooms July-August.

  Size: 15” x 15”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Himalayas, from Pakistan to Kashmir
  Wildlife Value: attracts Bees
  Size: Root is edible (but not tasty) when cooked. It can also be dried and ground into a powder. A famine food, used when all else fails. The roots and leaves have been used in its native areas to make a poultice for the treatment of bruises, ulcers and wounds. Medicinal use published 1895.

  Collected before 1835.

• Comptonia peregrina Sweet Fern Z 2-6 SHRUB

  Grown for it’s fern like leaves, this small shrub flowers in spring with insignificant yellow flowers followed by brown nutlets. Foliage is fragrant when crushed.

  

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  Grown for it’s fern like leaves, this small shrub flowers in spring with insignificant yellow flowers followed by brown nutlets. Foliage is fragrant when crushed.

  Size: 2-5’ x 4’ spreading
  Care: sun to part shade in moist, well-drained to well-drained soil. Prefers acidic, but will grow in other types of soil as well. Drought and salt tolerant.
  Native: Eastern North America, Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies, & birds. Larval host plant for a wide variety of moths, including the Io moth & several Sphinx moth species, and the Anise Swallowtail butterfly. Deer resistant. Nitrogen fixer.

  Genus name honors Henry Compton (1632-1713), Bishop of London and patron of botany.
  Peregrina means exotic or immigrant. Many Native Americans (Algonquin, Cherokee, Chippewa, Delaware, Menominee, Delaware, Potawatomi) used this plant for a wide variety of purposes: Crushed leaves inhaled for headache. Leaf infusions for: round worms, fevers, beverage, blood purifier, blisters, clear mucus from lungs, bladder inflammation, rash from poison ivy, swelling, flux, stomach cramps, itch.   Fragrance leaves- burned or crushed for incense in ceremony, perfume,   Decoction – childbirth, tonic,   Other: sprinkle on medicine to poison enemy, prevent blueberries from spoiling, leaves in fire to make smudge to ward off mosquitoes.
  Collected before 1753.