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Haley Maddox

My garden · Pittsburgh · zone 6

My garden, in bloom

30 native plant cards, 38 varieties in all (some cards, like goldenrods, cover a few). Each line is one variety, earliest bloom first.

30native cards
38varieties
25open in August
10keystone
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Bloom calendar

Every plant with a known bloom time, earliest first. Tap a name to open its card.

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Blueberry
Columbine
Violet
Great white trillium
Rue anemone
Blackberries
Foamflower
Raspberries
Wild indigo
Lupine
Tickseeds
Butterfly weed
Whorled milkweed
Goat's beard
Phlox
Bee balm 'Pardon My Pink'
Common milkweed
Coneflowers
Gray-headed coneflower
Pale spiked lobelia
Clustered mountain mint
Pink tickseed
Rose mallow
Wild bergamot
Heuchera
Spotted Joe Pye weed
Blue vervain
Spotted bee balm
Swamp milkweed
Brown-eyed Susan
Obedient plant
Purple giant hyssop
White turtlehead
Turtlehead 'Hot Lips'
Asters
Goldenrod
Sunflowers
White wood aster
What the tags and numbers mean
Native
Grows wild in this region; it wasn't brought here by people.
Perennial
Comes back from the same roots every year.
Keystone
A genus on the Ecoregion 8 keystone chart: it feeds far more caterpillars or specialist bees than most plants.
Host
The only food a particular caterpillar can eat, like milkweed for monarchs.
Specialist bee
A bee that collects pollen from one group of plants and nothing else.
Caterpillar species
How many moth and butterfly species raise their caterpillars on this genus.
Endangered
Federally listed as endangered in the wild. Nursery plants don't take from wild populations.
Edible
Has parts you can eat. Only eat a plant you have positively identified.
Bloom bar
The months the types in my garden flower.

Cards

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Sorted A to Z. Tap “Show details” for the numbers, bee, caterpillar, and fun fact.

Aster plant

Asters Symphyotrichum

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Bee balm plant

Bee balms Monarda

NativePerennialEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Blackberry cane with flowers and berries

Blackberries Rubus

NativePerennialKeystoneEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Blue vervain with candelabra flower spikes

Blue vervain Verbena hastata

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Blueberry shrub

Blueberries Vaccinium

NativePerennialKeystoneEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Brown-eyed Susan with small yellow daisies

Brown-eyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Wild columbine plant

Columbines Aquilegia

NativePerennialHost

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Coneflower plant

Coneflowers Echinacea

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Foamflower with cream spikes and cut leaves

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Goat's beard with cream plumes

Goat's beard Aruncus dioicus

NativePerennialHost

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Goldenrod plant

Goldenrods Solidago

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Great white trillium with three leaves and a white flower

Great white trillium Trillium grandiflorum

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Alumroot with maple-like leaves and white flower spray

Heuchera Heuchera villosa

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Joe Pye weed plant

Joe Pye weeds Eutrochium

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Wild lupine with blue flower spike

Lupines Lupinus perennis

NativePerennialHost

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Milkweed plant

Milkweeds Asclepias

NativePerennialHost

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Mountain mint with flat white flower clusters and silvery bracts

Mountain mints Pycnanthemum

NativePerennialEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Obedient plant

Obedient plants Physostegia

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Pale spiked lobelia with a spike of pale blue flowers

Pale spiked lobelia Lobelia spicata

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Phlox with lavender-pink flower clusters

Phlox Phlox paniculata

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Prairie coneflower plant

Prairie coneflowers Ratibida

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Purple giant hyssop with a dense lavender spike

Purple giant hyssop Agastache scrophulariifolia

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Raspberry canes with red berries

Raspberries Rubus

NativePerennialKeystoneEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Rose mallow with large pink flowers

Rose mallow Hibiscus laevis

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Rue anemone with small white flowers

Rue anemone Thalictrum thalictroides

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Sunflower plant

Sunflowers Helianthus

NativePerennialKeystoneEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Tickseed plant

Tickseeds Coreopsis

NativePerennialKeystone

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Turtlehead plant

Turtleheads Chelone

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Violet plant

Violets Viola

NativePerennialHostEdible

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
Wild indigo plant

Wild indigos Baptisia

NativePerennial

Blooms

M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O

Not native here

In the garden, but not counted for butterflies and bees.