"Pollinator Paradise" Demonstration Garden

What's in Bloom?


September 9, 2024


 

Photos by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.


All plants native to North Carolina unless otherwise noted.

The American beautyberries are almost at peak ripeness.
The American beautyberries are almost at peak ripeness. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Swamp rose mallow, or velvet mallow is a southern native.
Swamp rose mallow, or velvet mallow, is a southern native. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Delta flower scarab beetle on mountain mint.
Delta flower scarab beetle on mountain mint. Photo by Debbie Roos.

Here's What's Blooming This Week


Tiny tubular 5-petaled flowers in clusters in the upper leaf axils and stem tips from May to September. Flowers are white to greenish-white

Boltonia asteroides

White doll's daisy

Lesser calamint
Calamintha nepeta Lesser calamint * exotic
Prairie poppy mallow
Callirhoe involucrata Prairie poppy mallow * central U.S.
Spurred butterfly-pea
Centrosema virginianum Spurred butterfly-pea
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis Buttonbush
Georgia savory
Clinopodium georgianum Georgia savory
Wild ageratum
Conoclinium coelestinum Wild ageratum/mistflower
Palmleaf thoroughwort
Conoclinium greggii
Gregg's mistflower/ palmleaf thoroughwort
* native to southwestern U.S.
Tall tickseed
Coreopsis tripteris
Tall tickseed
Whorled tickseed
Coreopsis verticillata Whorled tickseed
American dittany
Cunila origanoides American dittany/wild oregano
Purple coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

Purple coneflower

Boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum Boneset
Flowering spurge

Euphorbia corollata

Flowering spurge

small white flowers
Eurybia divaricatus
White wood aster
Gaillardia aestivalis 'Grape Sensation' Lanceleaf blanketflower
Gaillardia pulchella Indian blanket
Geranium 'Dilys'
Geranium 'Dilys' Hardy geranium * exotic
Red rose mallow
Hibiscus coccineus Red rose mallow
Velvet mallow
Hibiscus grandiflorus Velvet mallow
Seashore mallow
Kosteletzkya virginica Seashore mallow
The inflorescence is made up of rose-purple fluffy disc flowers in small groups on terminal spikes. Blooms late summer into fall.
Liatris microcephala Dwarf gayfeather
Blazing star
Liatris scariosa Devil's bite
Pink purple flowers
Liatris scariosa var. nieuwlandii Nieuwland's blazing star
* northeastern U.S.
Great blue lobelia

Lobelia siphilitica

Great blue lobelia

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

Honeysuckle

Spotted horsemint
Monarda punctata Spotted horsemint
Prairie goldenrod
Oligoneuron album Prairie goldenrod
Wild quinine
Parthenium integrifolium  Wild quinine
Purple passionflower vine
Passiflora incarnata Purple passionflower vine
Yellow passion flower vine
Passiflora lutea
Yellow passionflower vine
Narrowleaf Carolina phlox

Phlox carolina ssp. angusta

Narrowleaf Carolina phlox

'Jeana' phlox

Phlox paniculata 'Jeana'

Garden phlox

1 inch pale purple to rose flowers borne in a showy terminal spike. The corolla is swollen at the throat, the upper lip is domed, the lower lip spreading with three lobes. Blooms from July to October.
Physostegia virginiana 'Miss Manners'
Obedient plant
Appalachian mountain mint
Pycnanthemum flexuosum Appalachian mountain mint
Loomis' mountain mint
Pycnanthemum loomisii Loomis' mountain mint
Short-toothed mountain mint
Pycnanthemum muticum Short-toothed mountain mint
Narrow-leaf mountain mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium Narrow-leaf mountain mint
Virginia mountain mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum Virginia mountain mint
Orange coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida Orange coneflower
Green-headed coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
Green-headed coneflower
Brown-eyed susan
Rudbeckia triloba Brown-eyed susan
Late figwort
Scrophularia marilandica Late figwort
Hoary skullcap
Scutellaria incana Hoary skullcap
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
Sedum 'Autumn Joy' Stonecrop * exotic
Cup plant
Silphium perfoliatum
Cup plant
Early goldenrod

Solidago juncea

Early goldenrod

'Fireworks' rough-leaf goldenrod
Solidago rugosa 'Fireworks' Rough-leaf goldenrod
Solar Cascade goldenrod
Solidago shortii 'Solar Cascade' Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa Showy goldenrod
Stokes' aster 'Peachie's Pick'
Stokesia laevis 'Peachie's Pick' Stokes' aster
Blue wood aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium Blue wood aster
New England aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'September Ruby' New England aster
Frost aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum Frost aster
Hoary vervain

Verbena hastata

Blue vervain

Giant ironweed
Vernonia gigantea 'Purple Pillar'
Giant ironweed
Threadleaf ironweed
Vernonia lettermanii
Threadleaf ironweed
New York ironweed
Vernonia noveboracensis New York ironweed