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2008 Catalog
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| Baptisias or false
indigo belongs to the family Fabaceae. These are all long lived, drought
tolerant, outstanding natives. Most of the Baptisias thrive in full sun
and will tolerate some shade. Fabaceae is the bean family & you will
recognize the lovely foliage & pea shaped flowers if you’ve ever observed
a garden with peas growing in it. |
Baptisia alba v. alba
Wild white indigo
$6.00 medium perennial pot
Arkansas native
Full sun to half day.
Zones 4-10 Family: Fabaceae
Also known as Baptisia leucantha,
this native is found from Mississippi to Ontario & westward to Nebraska
& south to Texas. Generally the tallest of the species at about 5’.
Very upright foliage with beautiful white flowers. More beautiful
with each year.
Baptisia alba v pendula
Wild
false indigo
Native
$sold out
Full sun
Zones 5-9. Family: Fabaceae
There are at least
two wild white indigos. The growth habit & bloom time are different.
Baptisia alba v. pendula blooms earlier than Baptisia leucantha & is
more compact - about 3' in height as opposed to 4' or more with B. leucantha.
Here at the nursery, Baptisia pendula is planted in a clay bank that is
visible when you first drive up & for about a month in early spring,
every person who visits asks about it. With smokey purple stems that
appear almost black at times, it's a knockout. Then pristine white
pea-shaped flowers appear, followed by charcoal seed pods which droop from
the stems - thus the name pendula!
Baptisia australis Wild
blue indigo
$7.00 Quart
Native
Sun to part shade
Zones 5-8 at least Family: Fabaceae
Baptisias or wild indigos
or false indigos, whatever you wish to call them, are a mainstay in the
dry gardens. With taproots that go deep into the ground, they can
waltz through drought witout batting a leaf! Drop dead blue flowers
arise in late spring, reminiscent of Lupine flowers (they are related you
know).
Baptisia leucantha
see Baptisia alba v. alba
Baptisia leucophaea
Nodding wild indigo 
Arkansas native
Sold out
Full sun to afternoon shade to dappled shade. Zones 5-9 at least
This lovely baptisia goes
under several names while botanists fight over what is the correct name.
This seems to be the most commonly accepted botanical name so that is what
I call it. Names aside, Nodding wild indigo is a lovely plant standing
only a foot or so tall & the flower heads gracefully droop to the side.
If planted on a hillside, the flowers usually droop to the low side.
Baptisia minor
Small false blue indigo
$sold out
Arkansas native Sun
Zones Family: Fabaceae
Blue pea-shaped flowers ornament
this shorter member of the Baptisia genus. Tough, drought tolerant
plants that just get bigger & better each year. Baptisias often
take up to 3 years to bloom.
Baptisia pendula - see
Baptisia alba v. pendula
Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'
Flase wild indigo
$10.00 quart
Native hybrid Sun
Z: 4-9 Family: Fabaceae
Growing 3-4' in ordinary soil,
'Purple Smoke' is ideal for low maintenance gardening. Very drought
tolerant and long lived. With its smoky violet colored flowers in
April/May, it is a standout.
Baptisia sphaeracarpa
Wild yellow indigo 
$6.00 Medium perennial pot
$8.00 Quart
Arkansas native
Sun Zones
5-10 at least Family: Fabaceae
Bright sunshine yellow are
the flowers of this hardy baptisia. Even when the mowers cut it down, it
persists to come another year. Full sun. 24 - 36" tall. Native to Arkansas
(where I collected the seed on the side of the road in Franklin County)
& Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma & Texas.
Blephilia ciliata
horsemint - wood mint
$sold out
Arkansas native
sun/part shade Zones 4-8 Family:Lamiaceae
I love this darling member
of the mint family & have wanted to offer it for several years but
was unable to secure enough seed. ! It looks like purple
pom poms on a stick. One ball shaped head of flowers - a bit of stem
and another ball shaped head of flowers. 12 to 30"
Blephia hirsuta
Hairy Wood Mint
$6.00 quart
Arkansas native Part
shade Z: 4-8 Family: Lamiaceae
Wood mint is nice for the
wild garden, particularly in wooded areas although it will grow in full
sun. Little pom-pom type flower heads are blue or purple & hummingbirds
love them. Plant height is from 12 to 30".
Brickellia eupatorioides
False Boneset
$7.00 Quart
Arkansas native Sun/pt
shade Z: Family: Asteraceae
False boneset is found on
dry open prairies, often in sandy soils. With a taproot that can
reach to 16 feet, false boneset is certainly another drought buster.
It may be mistaken for tall boneset - you can tell them apart as tall boneset
has oppoiste leaves. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies &
other flying critters - they are also sometimes used in flower arrangements.
Thanks to Theo Witsell for these seed.
| Callirhoe or poppy
mallows, belong to the family Malvaceae. They form a large tuberous root
& can take quite dry conditions. They do, however, seem to resent root
disturbance & don’t want their crown covered. Well drained soil is
necessary. Beautiful & long lived. |
Callirhoe involucrata
Purple poppy mallow
$8.00 Quart
Arkansas native Sun/pt
shade Zones 4-9 Family: Malvaceae
Hardy, long lived & extremely
drought tolerant are features that make this a good plant. The wine
colored blooms of about half dollar size that bloom for a long time in
late spring & summer make this a outstanding plant. Good drainage
& sun
are its main requirements.
Canna flaccida
Bandana of the Everglades
$10.00 gallon
Native Sun/part
shade Zones (7) 8-10 Family: Cannaceae
Vivid yellow flowers on this
3-4' water loving canna. Native to the coastal states from Texas to Florida.
Interesting seed pods which are bright green with soft spines follow the
flowers. Standing water or constant moisture. Has wintered
over several years here at the nursery.
Cassia marilandica
Wild senna
$Sold out
Native Sun to part shade
Zone 5-8 at least Family: Fabaceae
Bright yellow pea shaped flowers
adorn wild senna! Plant toward the back of the border .... Or in
the center of an island bed as this beauty can easily reach 4-5' in height.
Deep green compound foliage is attractive all season. A host plant
for the Cloudless sulphus & dogface sulfur butterflies.
Cimicifuga racemosa
Black Cohosh
$sold out
Arkansas native Shade
to morning sun Zones 4-8 Family: Ranunculaceae
Spires of white flowers adorn
this native herb which has been used medicinally for decades. Attractive
foliage on this 3-5’ plant. Does not tolerate drought.
| Coreopsis belong to
the family Asteraceae. Asteraceae meaning composite as usually the flowers
are made up of disc flowers (the center of the flower) & ray flowers
(the petals). Coreopsis usually bloom over a fairly long period & are
attractive to butterflies. |
Coreopsis lanceolata
Lance leaf coreopsis
$6.00 Quart
Arkansas native Sun
Z: 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
Native to much of this country,
lance leaf coreopsis is known to most everone with the cheerful yellow
daisy-like flowers dancing in the wind. Best grown in dry lean soils.
May self seed. Butterflies!
Coreopsis tripteris
Tall tickseed
$6.00 Quart
Arkansas native Sun
Zones 3-8 Family: Asteraceae
An ideal prairie or meadow
plant, tall tickseed can get from 2 feet to 6 feet, dependings on soils
& moisture. Another lovely member of the Aster Family, tall tickseed
not only attracts butterflies in summer but feeds small seed eating birds
in fall & winter. I always feel a surge of joy when I see an
Indigo bunting with its feet clasped on the stem pecking at the dried flowerheads.
Butterflies!
Crinum sp. Bog
lily
out
Probably not native
Sun to pt shade Zones 7–10 at least Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Certainly a ‘pass-a-long’
plant. I’ve seen this lovely Crinum growing around old home places
for many years. Wide straplike leaves make a vigorous clump.
Arising out of the center are sturdy stems that are topped with very fragrant
trumpet shaped white flowers.
| Service & packaging
top-rate. Excellent plants! Thank you. JJ- Oklahoma |
Dalea purpurea
Purple prairie clover
$sold out
Arkansas native
Sun Z: 4-8 Family: Fabaceae
Bright purple flowers that
look like a ballerina's tutu appear in late spring on erect short (12")
stems. Very drought tolerant & hardy.
Dasyliron wheeleri
Sotol / Desert spoon
$10.00 Medium perennial pot
$20.00 3 quart (few)
Native Sun
Z: 6(5) - 10 Family: Liliaceae
An outstanding drought buster!
This member of the lily family has hooked spines on the leaves - so pet
it gently. Blue-gray leaves cascade fountain-like & when the
plant gets large enough, it will flower with white blooms up to 12' tall.
Deer resistant! I have grown this in a south facing bank for over
10 years & it just keeps getting better each year.
Desmanthus illinoisensis
Bundleflower 
$9.00 1/2 gallon
Arkansas native
Sun to light shade Zones 5-9 Family:
Fabaceae
Similar
looking to sensitive briar, this wildflower does not have prickles however
and has fine long stamens projecting from each flower so it looks like
a white puffball. Sun/light shade. Important food for wildlife. Native
range is from Texas to Indiana. 3-4’.
Dicentra exima Bleeding
heart
$sold out
Shade, Morning sun/afternoon
shade. zone 4-8 Family:
Fumariaceae
Ferny foliage that does not
die to the ground in the summer is one of the marked differences between
this & some of the other species. Dangling pink flowers in spring,
often reblooming later in summer. Adequate moisture
.
Dicliptera suberecta
King’s crown  ©
$ available
again late spring 2008
South America
Sun to part shade Zones 7-10 Family:
Acanthaceae
Hardy in upper zone
7. Very drought tolerant. It flourishes in spite of the extremely dry summers.
Bloom starts about mid July & is continuous until frost. More or less
oval to obvate soft felty leaves with orangey-red flowers that really draws
the butterflies..
Echinacea pallida
pale purple coneflower  
$7.00 quart
ready late spring 2008
Arkansas native
Sun/part shade.
Zones 3-8. Family: Asteraceae
Native to much of the U.S
& Arkansas, this coneflowers has pale drooping petals. Lightly
fragrant with spidery petals. butterflies.
Echinacea paradoxa  
$7.00 Quart ready
late spring 2008
Arkansas native
Sun to part shade.
Zones 6 to 9 at least. Family: Asteraceae
A paradox indeed! A yellow
Echinacea. The yellow rays are strongly downturned with the disc dark brown.
This lovely native is not widespread but is found on rocky slopes in Arkansas,
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma & Texas. Perennial. Usually found in limestone
country but will grow in my acidic soil. butterflies.
Echinacea
purpurea 'Alba' White coneflower
sold
out
Arkansas
native Sun/pt shade Zones Family: Asteraceae
Lovely
white flowers on this purple coneflower. A contradiction you say
- but that's what it is - instead of the flowers being purple (pink), the
flowers are white. And seedlings you get from this plant may be white
or they may be purple!
Echinacea
purpurea 'Double Decker' Funny-looking coneflower
$12.00
trade gallon -
Native
Sun/part shade Zones 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
Sometimes
you just grow a plant for fun. A curiosity really! This is
one of those instances, Double decker is a purple coneflower with an attitude.
Not content with having the usual pinky-purple ray flowers which surround
the disc (or cone), Double decker has petals coming out of the top of the
cone! This may not happen the first year, but does so fairly consistently
thereafter.
NEW FOR 2008
Echinacea
purpurea Purple coneflower
$7.00
Quart
Arkansas
native Sun/part shade Zone: 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
A lovely
purple coneflower - which is really a stunning pink - seeds thanks to Teresa
Thrash! This coneflower has narrower leaves than usual.
Echinaceae
purpurea 'Magnus' Purple
coneflower
$10.00
trade gallon -
Arkansas
native Sun/part shade Zones 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
A great
selection of purple coneflower. Deep mauvy pink blossoms that really
draw in butterflies & other flying critters.
Echinacea 'Big Sky' After
Midnight ppaf
Dwarf Coneflower
$12.00 Quart
Native hybrid
Sun/pt shade Z: 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
Another one of the new Echinacea
hybrids that are sweeping the nation. This ones claim to fame is
the nearly black stems, dark pink flowers, very fragrant & a height
of 12 - 18". Butterflies!
Echinacea
'Pixie Meadowbrite' ppaf
Dwarf coneflower
$12.00
Quart
Native
hybrid Sun/part shade Z: 4-9
Family: Asteraceae
Pixie
Meadowbrite is a bigorous plant that has a medium growth rate & in
two years reaches a mature height of 18 to 20 inches. Like most coneflowers,
Pixie prefers well-drained moist soils and full sun. It is a wonderfully
drought tolerant, dwarf perennial perfect for containers, perennial borders
and small urban gardens. With the habit of a pot mum, it fits snuggly
into small gardens and commercial landscapes. It has a heavy flush
of blooms from July to August with sporadic flower production until October
and is very attractive to birds and butterflies.
Erigeron philadelphicus
Daisy fleabane
$6.00 Medium perennial pot
$10.00 3 quart
Arkansas native Sun
to part shade Z: 3-9 Family: Asteraceae
This species has the most
ray flowers of any Erigeron in the Ozarks. The center disc flowers
are greenish yellow & the ray flowers are a light pink. Traditionally,
this was used to brew a tea to treat kidney stones & diabetes.
Biennial or short lived perennial. Butterflies!
Erigium yuccifolium
Rattlesnakemaster
$7.00 quart - ready late spring
2008
Arkansas native Sun
to part shade. Zones 5-9 Family: Asteraceae
An unusual looking whitish
flower top blue gray foliage that looks similar to yucca. Found over
most of the eastern part of the U.S., rattlesnakemaster was used by the
American Indians for a multitude of medicinal purposes - one of which was
to make a poultice of the root to apply to snakebites. Now-a-days,
using it as a vertical accent in the garden to attract butterfliesis
the most common use.
Eupatorium dubium 'Little
Joe'ppaf
Dwarf Joe Pye weed
$sold out
Native Sun/part shade
Zone 4-8 Family: Asteraceae
I am much impressed with 'Little
Joe' The foliage is a rich dark green with flowers of deep mauve
pink. Also known as Coastal plain Joe Pye, Little Joe tops out at
3 to 4 feet, making it more manageable in the garden than some of its relatives.
Eupatorium fistulosum
Joe Pye Weed
$7.00 Quart $10.00
Trade gallon
Arkansas native
Sun to part shade Zones 4-10 Family:
Asteraceae
This giant Joe Pye weed draws
butterflies like a magnet with large pinky mauve flowers on very stiff
stems. Plan on 6 to 10 feet for this lovely mid to late summer bloomer.
Eupatorium hyssopifolium 
$6.00 quart
Native Sun to
part shade Zones 4-8 Family: Asteraceae
I feel like stealing some
of Tony Avent's comments & asking for a better common name! It
is a shame for this underused native to be burdened with a name only a
mother could love. Very fine foliage graces this late summer blooming
texture plant. Good nectar plant for butterflies.
White flowers.
Eupatorium maculatum Joe
pye weed
$6.00 quart -
Native Sun
to part shade Zones 5-9
Family: Asteraceae
. Joe Pye weed is an
outstanding butterfly
plant!
Dusty rose colored flowers top off an imposing plant from 3 to 9 feet tall
(if it's really happy). Normally gets to about 4-6'. Joe Pye
likes good soil & adequate moisture. Bloom period is late summer
into fall.
Eupatorium
maculatum 'Gateway' Joe Pye Weed
$10.00
trade gallon
Native
Sun/part shade Zones 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
Gateway
has huge bright mauve pink flower clusters atop deep wine red stems.
More compact & shorter than others in this species, Gateway blooms
between July & September. 4-6'. Not drought tolerant. Butterflies.
Eupatorium perfoliatum Boneset
$7.00 1/2 gal
Arkansas native Sun
to part shade Zones 4-9 Family: Asteraceae
The long narrow leaves clasp
the stem so tightly that it appears the stem has grown through the leaves.
Puffy white flower heads adorn this native meadow plant that get from 3
to 5'. Very attractive to butterflies but it is poisonous to cattle.
While liking moisture, it is quite drought tolerant when established.
butterflies
Eupatorium
purpureum Joe Pye weed
$7.00
quart
Arkansas
native Sun/shade Zones Family: Asteraceae
Butterfly
attractor! Lovely pinky-purple flowers heads rise tall in the mid
summer garden. Average to moist soils. butterflies
Eupatorium
rugosum White snakeroot
$6.00 Quart
Arkansas native
Sun to part shade Zones 5-8 Family: Asteraceae
Just another butterfly
attractor! Butterflies need nectar sources all season long which
is a good reason for planting white snakeroot. (Why snakeroot?
Does the root look like a snake? How many white snakes have you seen?)
At nearly 4' tall, white snakeroot doesn't get lost in the crowd.
Eupatorium serotinum
Late Joe Pye
$7.00 Quart
Arkansas native
Sun to part shade Z: 3-9 Family:
Asteraceae
Deep purple stems are a vivid
contrast to the deep green of the foliage. This contrast is most
vivid early in the season. Toward the end of summer, late Joe Pye
is covered in white blooms, attracting flying critters from near &
far. Another drought buster! Butterflies!
| * Medium perennial pots are 3 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 4" |
Gaura lindheimeri
Wand flower
$6.00 Quart
Native Sun/part shade
Z: 5-9 Family: Onagraceae
Native to Texas & Louisiana,
Wand flower or Appleblossom grass (as I saw it referred to today) is a
delightful long blooming perennial. Four petaled white flowers with
long stamens seem to dance in the slightest breeze - also gaining it the
name of whirling butterflies.
Gillenia stipulata
Indian physic
$sold out Should be
available in late fall 2007
Arkansas native
Morning sun/light shade
Zones 5-9 Family: Rosaceae
Synonym: Poteranthus stipulatus.
When I was at the butterfly festival this year on Mt. Magazine, at the
visitor center, I saw many of these starry white flowers on the edge of
dry woods. So cheerful blooming in late June! Native from New
York to Texas.
Glandularia canadensis
Purple verbena
$sold out - should have more
ready late spring 2008
Arkansas native Sun/part
shade Z: 5-9 Family: Verbenaceae
A trailing plant that spreads
quickly to form a lovely ground cover. Flat-topped clusters of deep
pink to rose-purple flowers appear for several months from early spring
in summer. A great butterfly attractor that also does well in containers.
Average to dry soil that is well drained.
You see purple verbena growing
on roadsides in tough conditions.
Butterflies!
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