July Herbaceous Plant List

Front 1

course rounded leaves, flowers are rose pink, re, yellow and purple, 6 feet

Back 1

Hollyhock

Hint 1

Alcea rosea

Front 2

grown for foliage, silver pubescent leaves, droopy yellow flower

Back 2

Wormwood

Hint 2

Artemisia absinthium

Front 3

blackish/mohogany coarse leaves, fragrant flower creamy white panicles

Back 3

White mugwort

Hint 3

Artemisia lactiflora

Front 4

erect plant grown for silver gray leaves, insignificant white flower

Back 4

White sage

Hint 4

Artemisia ludoviciana

Front 5

billowing shiny silvery leaves, 2x4 feet, yellow droopy flowers

Back 5

Roman wormwood

Hint 5

Artemisia pontica x 'powis castle'

Front 6

12", silvery white silky leaves, insignificant yellow flower

Back 6

Silvermound

Hint 6

Artemisia schmidtiana

Front 7

ground cover, gray felt leaves, ugly yellow flower, dusty miller like

Back 7

Perennial dusty miller

Hint 7

Artemisia stelleriana

Front 8

zeroscape, stout plant, stem filled with milky sap, flowers orange yellow clusters

Back 8

Butterfly weed

Hint 8

Asclepias tuberosa

Front 9

broad fern like foliage, like overgrown astilbe, giant white creamy plumes for flowers

Back 9

Goats beard

Hint 9

Aruncus dioicus

Front 10

woody shrub, gray-green leaves, light fruity scented flower

Back 10

Butterfly bush

Hint 10

Buddleia davidii

Front 11

stout stemmed, coarse leaves, large daisy like flower, petals of natives droop

Back 11

purple cone flower

Hint 11

Echinacea purpurea

Front 12

jagged thistle like green leaves, on top of foliage is 1 spherical head of flowers

Back 12

Globe thistle

Hint 12

Echinops ritro

Front 13

very sharp leathery leaves, tiny flower in dense cone like umbels

Back 13

Seaholly

Hint 13

Eryngium amethystinum

Front 14

6-8 feet tall, plumey pink flower clusters, astilbe like

Back 14

queen of the prairie

Hint 14

Filipendula rubra

Front 15

3-6 feet, white plumes of flower clusters

Back 15

queen of the meadow

Hint 15

Filipendula ulmaria

Front 16

monocot thin leaves, flowers indeterminate bottom up blooms in a spike

Back 16

Glads

Hint 16

Gladiolus

Front 17

lower leaves opposite & upper leaves alternate, bright golden yellow flowers, double blooms like dahlia

Back 17

Perennial sunflower

Hint 17

Helianthus x multiflorus

Front 18

all leaves opposite and narrow, heads are solitary daisy, yellow to orange

Back 18

False sunflower

Hint 18

Heliopsis helianthoides

Front 19

indestructible, monocot, many different color patterns and flower types

Back 19

Daylily

Hint 19

Hemerocallis

Front 20

many different colors of leaves, foliage is the real interest

Back 20

Funkia/Plantain lily

Hint 20

Hosta spp.

Front 21

linear basil grass like leaves, terminal spike flower, bottle brush like

Back 21

Blazing stars/gayfeather

Hint 21

Liatris spicata

Front 22

bold large leaves 8-12" wide, toothed edges, daisy flower in messy cluster

Back 22

golden ray/ragwort

Hint 22

Ligularia dentata

Front 23

small yellow flower on purple black stems

Back 23

the rocket

Hint 23

ligularia stenocephala

Front 24

minty silvery woody leaves, bright lavender tubular flowers

Back 24

russian sage

Hint 24

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Front 25

bushy and taller with shorter leaves, wide range of flower colors, rounded shape

Back 25

tall garden phlox

Hint 25

Phlox paniculata

Front 26

dense clumps, opposite leaves, square stem, spike iniflorescence

Back 26

false dragonhead

Hint 26

Physostegia virginiana

Front 27

blue green glaucous leaves closely arranged, round balloon like buds open bell like

Back 27

balloon flower/japanese bell flower

Hint 27

Platycodon grandiflorus

Front 28

dark green coarse leaves, vivid yellow orange daisy flower

Back 28

black eyed susan

Hint 28

Rudbeckia fulgida

Front 29

coarse ovate toothed leaves, shining coneflower

Back 29

coneflower

Hint 29

Rudbeckia nitidal

Front 30

grown for foliage, soft woolly leaves

Back 30

lamb's ear/tongue

Hint 30

Stachys byzantina

Front 31

wrinkled heart shaped leaves, violet spike flower

Back 31

big betony/bishops wort

Hint 31

Stachys macrantha

Front 32

climbing vine with diverse flowers

Back 32

virgin's bower

Hint 32

Clematis hybrids

Front 33

stems are substantial and upright, every color flower but green, upward and downward facing

Back 33

lily

Hint 33

Lilium asiatica

Front 34

larger flower, 6-8", fragrant white, pink, yellow and spotted or edged flowers

Back 34

oriental lily

Hint 34

Lilium orientalis

Front 35

leaves grow in whorls, pendant flower with backward curling petals

Back 35

lily

Hint 35

Lilium martagon

Front 36

tall, thin leaves, always purple spots on flowers

Back 36

tiger lily

Hint 36

Lilium tigrinum