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What’s in Bloom?

April 10, 2023

Photos by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.

All plants native to North Carolina unless otherwise noted.

Apple serviceberry with dwarf fothergilla.

Apple serviceberry with dwarf fothergilla. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Yarrow with golden alexander.

Yarrow with golden alexander. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Mining bee (Andrena) on possumhaw.

Mining bee (Andrena) on possumhaw. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Wooly Dutchman's pipe.

Wooly Dutchman’s pipe. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Here’s What’s Blooming This Week

Paprika yarrow

Achillea x ‘Paprika’

Yarrow

* exotic

Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

Chives

* exotic

Arkansas bluestar 
Amsonia hubrichtii

Arkansas bluestar

Eastern bluestar

Amsonia tabernaemontana

Eastern bluestar

The plant has small white flowers from pink buds in spring.

Amelanchier x grandiflora
‘Autumn Brilliance’

Apple serviceberry

Clusters of white flower heads

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Pussytoes

Eastern columbine Aquilegia canadensis

Eastern wild columbine

Golden columbine Aquilegia chrysantha

Golden columbine

* native to southwestern U.S.

Dutchman's pipe

Aristolochia tomentosa

Dutchman’s pipe

Hybrid wild indigo Baptisia alba x sphaerocarpus

Hybrid wild indigo
White fringetree

Chionanthus virginicus

White fringetree

Curlyheads

Clematis ochroleuca

Curlyheads

Lobed tickseed

Coreopsis auriculata

Lobed tickseed

Robin's plaintain Erigeron pulchellus

Robin’s plaintain

Wide lavender colored leaves on a tall thin stem. Geranium maculatum

Wild geranium

White thin petals from a woody stem. Fothergilla ‘Mount Airy’

Dwarf fothergilla

Burgundy blanketflower

Gaillardia ‘Burgundy’

Lanceleaf blanketflower

Flat-topped clusters of creamy white blooms Ilex decidua

Possumhaw

Dark purple flower spikes topped with four lighter purple bracts that resemble flags or ears.

Lavandula stoechas

Spanish lavender

* exotic

Coral honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens
‘Cedar Lane’, ‘Major Wheeler’,
and ‘John Clayton’

Honeysuckle

Piedmont Barbara's buttons

Marshallia obovata

Piedmont Barbara’s buttons

Catmint

Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’

Catmint

* exotic

Cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera berlandieri 
‘Siskiyou’

Evening primrose

* southwest U.S.

blue to violet lobed, prominent stamens; more or less one-sided raceme; petals not fringed. Phacelia bipinnatifida

Fernleaf phacelia

Blue phlox has loose clusters of slightly fragrant, tubular, lilac to rose to blue flowers (to 1.5" wide) with five, flat, wedge-shaped, notched, petal-like lobes that appear at the stem tips in spring. Its stamens are recessed. Phlox divaricata ‘Tika’

Woodland phlox

Downy phlox Phlox pilosa 

Downy phlox

Eastern ninebark

Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Diablo’

Eastern ninebark

Tiny pale blue, purple, to white flowers bloom in clusters along the shoots of the prior year’s growth. Rosmarinus officinalis 

Rosemary ‘Tuscan Blue’

 Lyreleaf salvia Salvia lyrata

Lyreleaf salvia

The flowers are loose clusters of rose-pink tubular blooms with five spreading wedged-shaped petals with ten stamens and three styles. Silene caroliniana

Wild pink

Blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Blue-eyed grass

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia

Foamflower

Spiderwort Tradescantia x ‘Purple Profusion’

Spiderwort

Ohio spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis

Ohio spiderwort

Society garlic

Tulbaghia violacea

Society garlic

* exotic

Blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium

Blackhaw

Heartleaf golden alexander Zizia aptera

Heartleaf golden alexander

Golden alexander Zizia aurea

Golden alexander