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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.

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Actaea pachypodaWhite baneberry
Dolls eyes
Allium cernuumNodding onion
Amelanchier canadensisCanadian serviceberry
Canadian service-berry
Shadblow serviceberry
Juneberry
Amelanchier laevisAllegheny service-berry
Allegheny serviceberry
Serviceberry
Asclepias tuberosaButterflyweed
Butterfly milkweed
Orange milkweed
Pleurisy root
Athyrium filix-feminaCommon ladyfern
Lady fern
Ladyfern
Subarctic lady fern
Carya glabraPignut hickory
Cercis canadensisEastern redbud
Redbud
Cornus floridaFlowering dogwood
Virginia dogwood
Diphylleia cymosaAmerican umbrellaleaf
Umbrella-leaf
Drosera filiformisThreadleaf sundew
Drosera intermediaSpoonleaf sundew
Dryopteris intermediaIntermediate woodfern
Evergreen wood-fern
Fancy wood fern
Echinacea purpureaEastern purple coneflower
Purple coneflower
Enemion biternatumEastern false rue anemone
Eastern false rue-anemone
Fraxinus americanaWhite ash
Geranium maculatumSpotted geranium
Wild geranium
Cranesbill
Hamamelis virginianaWitch hazel
American witch hazel
Hibiscus coccineusScarlet rose-mallow
Scarlet rosemallow
Texas star hibiscus
Wild red mallow
Houstonia caeruleaAzure bluet
Quaker-ladies
Bluets
Hydrangea arborescensWild hydrangea
Sevenbark
Ilex opacaAmerican holly
Christmas holly
Ilex verticillataCommon winterberry
Michigan holly
Black alder
Jeffersonia diphyllaTwinleaf
Leucothoe axillarisCoastal doghobble
Coast leucothoe
Lindera benzoinNorthern spicebush
Spicebush
Liatris spicataDense blazing star
Dense gayfeather
Marsh blazing star
Luzula acuminataHairy woodrush
Magnolia virginianaSweetbay
Sweetbay magnolia
Swampbay
Swamp magnolia
Small magnolia
Osmunda regalisRoyal fern
Pachysandra procumbensAllegheny spurge
Mountain spurge
Physocarpus opulifoliusAtlantic ninebark
Common ninebark
Quercus albaWhite oak
Northern white oak
Stave Oak
Ridge White Oak
Forked-leaf White Oak
Quercus bicolorSwamp white oak
Quercus phellosWillow oak
Quercus velutinaBlack oak
Rhododendron flammeumPiedmont azalea
Oconee azalea
Rhynchospora latifoliaSandswamp whitetop
Sand-swamp whitetop
Whitetop sedge
Sanguisorba canadensisCanadian burnet
American burnet
Sarracenia flavaYellow pitcherplant
Trumpets
Sarracenia leucophyllaCrimson pitcherplant
Crimson Pitcher-plant
Sarracenia psittacinaParrot pitcherplant
Sedum ternatumWoodland stonecrop
Wild stonecrop
Spiranthes odorataMarsh lady's tresses
Fragrant lady's tresses
Symphyotrichum oblongifoliumAromatic aster
Aromatic American aster
Fall aster
Wild blue aster
Tiarella cordifolia var. collinaHeartleaf foamflower
Wherry's foamflower
Trillium grandiflorumLarge-flower wakerobin
Large-flowered trillium
White trillium
Tsuga canadensisEastern hemlock
Uvularia grandifloraLargeflower bellwort
Large-flower bellwort
Merrybells
Uvularia perfoliataPerfoliate bellwort
Mealy bellwort
Merrybells
Vaccinium corymbosumHighbush blueberry
Vernonia gigantea ssp. giganteaGiant ironweed
Tall ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicumCulver's root
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