Native plants for small to average gardens 3-6 inches
S un: rose verbena, prairie pussytoes (dry), rock pink (dry). P art shade: dwarf crested iris, oak sedge, cedar sedge (dry), Robin’s plantain, trailing bush-clover, barren strawberry, wild ginger, woodland stonecrop
Whitmire Wildflower Garden, pussytoes and oak sedge in foreground need a groundcover. If you are gardening in small places, seek out plants that fit in small spaces. Like finding the perfect couch or shirt, it is important to get the right-sized plant. Right is a list of native plants for small to average gardens. These plants are clump-forming, have slow to moderate growth rates, are compact, and perform well when properly mulched, watered, and weeded. Find suppliers of these and other natives at www.grownative.org, Resource Guide. Horticulturist Scott Woodbury is the Curator of the Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, MO, where he has worked with native plant propagation, design, and education for more than 20 years. He also is an advisor to the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program.
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6-14 inches
S un: fall glade onion (dry), star sedge, prairie dropseed, prairie alum root, copper iris, Gatinger’s prairie clover (dry), prickly pear cactus (dry).
P art shade: James sedge, littleflower alumroot, American alumroot, Pennsylvania sedge, false rue anemone, dittany (dry), Christmas fern, wild sweet William
14-24 inches
S un: fox sedge, yellow wild indigo, annual Helen’s flower, feathery bluestar, finger coreopsis, purple prairie clover (dry), slender mountain mint, slender bush clover, Missouri evening primrose, butterfly milkweed, spider milkweed. P art shade: Bradbury beebalm, Jacob’s ladder, indian pink, palm sedge, maidenhair fern, bellwort, wild geranium
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