Peirce’s Woods, Longwood Gardens
This seven-acre area has been developed as an "art form" garden that brings together the most ornamental characteristics of the eastern deciduous forest. Under the high branches of oak, ash, maple and tulip trees, sweeps of native shrubs and native ground cover plantings carpet the woodland floor, punctuated by flowering understory trees. Various "rooms" have been created within the woods, with emphasis on native deciduous azaleas blooming from early spring to summer. The concept of using native plants to create the woodland garden as an art form is one of the first such projects in any public garden.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Service-berry Serviceberry | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Diphylleia cymosa | American Umbrellaleaf Umbrella-leaf | |
Drosera filiformis | Threadleaf Sundew | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Dryopteris intermedia | Intermediate Woodfern Evergreen Wood-fern Fancy Wood Fern | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Enemion biternatum | Eastern False Rue Anemone Isopyrum | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
Houstonia caerulea | Azure Bluet Quaker Ladies Bluets | |
Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Jeffersonia diphylla | Twinleaf | |
Leucothoe axillaris | Coastal Doghobble Coast Leucothoe | |
Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
Luzula acuminata | Hairy Woodrush | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
Pachysandra procumbens | Allegheny Spurge Mountain Spurge | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak | |
Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
Rhododendron flammeum | Piedmont Azalea Oconee Azalea | |
Rhynchospora latifolia | Sand-swamp Whitetop Sedge Tall Whitetop Sedge Whitetop Sedge Sand-swamp Whitetop Tall Whitetop Whitetop Colorful Rush | |
Sanguisorba canadensis | Canadian Burnet American Burnet | |
Sarracenia flava | Yellow Pitcherplant Trumpets Yellow Pitcher Plant | |
Sarracenia leucophylla | Crimson Pitcherplant Crimson Pitcher-plant Crimson Pitcher Plant | |
Sarracenia psittacina | Parrot Pitcherplant Parrot Pitcher Plant | |
Sedum ternatum | Woodland Stonecrop Wild Stonecrop | |
Spiranthes odorata | Marsh Ladies'-tresses Fragrant Ladies'-tresses Marsh Lady's Tresses | |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic Aster Aromatic American Aster Fall Aster Wild Blue Aster Shale Aster | |
Tiarella cordifolia var. collina | Heartleaf Foamflower Wherry's Foamflower | |
Trillium grandiflorum | White Wake-robin White Trillium Large-flower Wake-robin Large-flower Trillium Large-flowered Wake-robin Large-flowered Trillium | |
Tsuga canadensis | Eastern Hemlock | |
Uvularia grandiflora | Largeflower Bellwort Large-flower Bellwort Merrybells | |
Uvularia perfoliata | Perfoliate Bellwort Mealy Bellwort Merrybells | |
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