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• Veronicastrum virginianum, Culver’s root Z 4-9

  Tall, graceful ivory spires

  

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  Tall, graceful ivory spires bloom from mid to late summer

  Size: 4' x 18"
  Care: full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
  Native: From Canada to Texas incl. Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies

  Used by American Indians as a laxative and to induce vomiting and clean blood.  Cherokee cured typhus and inactive livers with Culver’s root. Remember Culver’s Little Liver pills? Seneca Indians used the root in their ceremonies. 1^st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.   Colonial Puritan Cotton Mather unsuccessfully attempted to use this plant to cure his daughter’s tuberculosis in 1716.

• Zizia aurea Golden alexanders Z 4-9

  In spring, golden umbels

  

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  Tiny chartreuse-golden flowers, grouped in umbels, spring.  Good cut flower.

  Size: 30"x 24"
  Care: full sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
  Native: from New Brunswick south to Florida - west to Texas, Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: Primary host for the Missouri Woodland Swallowtail butterfly.

  Meskwaki used the root to reduce fevers and the flower stalks to ease headaches.  Collected by late 1700’s.  Good cut flower.