Plants for Hummingbirds

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  • Vernonia fasciculata Prairie Ironweed Z 3-7

    Dense clusters of true royal purple July-September

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    Dense clusters of true royal purple July-September

    Size: 3-4’ x 2-3’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well drained soil
    Native: so central Canada to central & eastern US
    Wildlife Value: Butterfly attractor – Fiery skipper, deer & rabbit resistant.

    Lakota Sioux: “The leaves are formed into a sort of “plate” that keeps foreign matter from getting on meat. An infusion of the root is used to regulate menstrual periods.”
    Collected by French planthunter André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years exploring America for plants.  Named to honor Wm. Vernon (1666-1711) English botanist who collected plants in late 1600’s.  

  • Xerophyllum tenax  Turkey beard, Indian basket grass    Z 5-8

    Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.

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    Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.

    Size: 3-5’ x 24-30”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: British Columbia, to Montana & WY

    Several western Indian tribes wove baskets & hats from the leaves & roasted the roots for food.  Blackfoot applied the plant to wounds to stop bleeding and repair breaks & sprains.  Collected by Meriwether Lewis June 15, 1806 just east of Weippe Prairie and west of Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho.

  • Zauschneria garetii syn Epilobium canum ssp. garrettii Hummingbird trumpet, California fuchsia, Garrett’s Firechalice Z 5-9

    Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.

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    Vibrant orange-red tubes in late summer, spreading by root, form a colorful groundcover.

    Size: 12” x 18-24”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: Kingston Mountains in CA, Utah, Idaho & Wyoming
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, birds and butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistant

    Collected in Utah’s Big Cottonweed Canyon in 1906 by A.O. Garrett (1870-1948), prolific Utah planthunter.