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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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Actaea pachypoda | White baneberry Dolls eyes | |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding onion | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry Canadian service-berry Shadblow serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny service-berry Allegheny serviceberry Serviceberry | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern Lady fern Ladyfern Subarctic lady fern | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| 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 Eastern false rue-anemone | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted geranium Wild geranium Cranesbill | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet rose-mallow Scarlet rosemallow Texas star hibiscus Wild red mallow | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure bluet Quaker-ladies Bluets | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common winterberry Michigan holly Black alder | |
| Jeffersonia diphylla | Twinleaf | |
| Leucothoe axillaris | Coastal doghobble Coast leucothoe | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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