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Species Selection by Planting Zone <br />(See the Flower Visuals PDF to see many of the species in bloom, by season.) <br />Zone 1: Shade, Edge of Trail <br />(-600 sq.ft.) <br />Common Name <br />Latin Name <br />Heioht <br />Color <br />Bloom Time <br />Plains Oval Sedge <br />Carex brevior <br />1' <br />Jun -Jul <br />Short -Headed Bracted Sedge Carex cephalophora <br />1.3' <br />May -Jun <br />Curly -Styled Wood Sedge <br />Carex rosea <br />1' <br />Jun <br />Wild Columbine <br />Aquilegia canadensis <br />2' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />Wild Ginger <br />Asarum canadense <br />0.5' <br />red <br />Apr -Jun <br />Big -Leaved Aster <br />Eurybia macrophylla <br />1' <br />purple <br />Aug -Sep <br />Wild Geranium <br />Geranium maculatum <br />1' <br />lav <br />Apr -Jul <br />Two -leaf Miterwort <br />Mitella diphylla <br />1' <br />wh/gr <br />Apr -Jun <br />Wild Blue Phlox <br />Phlox divancata <br />1' <br />blue <br />Apr -Jun <br />Jacob's Ladder <br />Polemonium reptans <br />1' <br />blue <br />Apr -Jun <br />Calico Aster <br />Symphyotrichum lateriflorum <br />2' <br />white <br />Aug -Oct <br />Early Meadowrue <br />Thalictrum dioicum <br />2' <br />green <br />Apr -May <br />White Canadian Violet <br />Viola canadensis <br />1' <br />white <br />Apr -May <br />Downy Yellow Violet <br />Viola pubescens <br />0.5' <br />yellow <br />Apr -Jun <br />Common Blue Violet <br />Viola sororia <br />0.4' <br />purple <br />Apr -Jun <br />Zone 2: Shade, Medium Height <br />Common Wood Sedge <br />Long -Beaked Sedge <br />Bottlebrush Grass <br />Silky Wild Rye <br />Tall Thimbleweed <br />(-2,200 sq.ft.) <br />Carex blanda <br />Carex sprengelii <br />Elymus hystrix <br />Elymus villosus <br />Wild Columbine <br />Spikenard <br />Downy Wood Mint <br />Tall Bellflower <br />Wild Geranium <br />Virginia Waterleaf <br />Early Figwort <br />Heart -Leaved Skullcap <br />Zig Zag Goldenrod <br />Elm -Leaved Goldenrod <br />Heart -Leaved Aster <br />Calico Aster <br />Early Meadowrue <br />Zone 3: Shade, Moist Woodland <br />Hairy Wood Chess <br />Purple -Sheathed Graceful Sedge <br />Silky Wild Rye <br />Virginia Wild Rye <br />Spikenard <br />Jack in the Pulpit <br />Poke Milkweed <br />Hairy Wood Mint <br />Tall Bellflower <br />Sweet Joe-pye Weed <br />Ostrich Fern <br />Virginia Bluebells <br />Sweet Cicely <br />Green -Headed Coneflower <br />Early Figwort <br />Yellow Violet <br />Witch Hazel <br />Chokecherry <br />Nannyberry <br />Anemone virginiana <br />Aquilegia canadensis <br />Aralia racemosa <br />Blephilia hirsuta <br />Campanula americana <br />Geranium maculatum <br />Hydrophyllum virginianum <br />Scrophularia lanceolata <br />Scutellaria ovata <br />Solidago flexicaulis <br />Solidago ulmifolia <br />Symphyotrichum cordifolium <br />Symphyotrichum lateriflorum <br />Thalictrum dioicum <br />Bromus pubescens <br />Carex gracillima <br />Elymus villosus <br />Elymus virginicus <br />Aralia racemosa <br />Arisaema triphyllum <br />Asclepias exaltata <br />Blephilia hirsuta <br />Campanula americana <br />Eutrochium purpureum <br />Matteuccia struthiopteris <br />Mertensia virginica <br />Osmorhiza claytonii <br />Rudbeckia laciniata <br />Scrophularia lanceolata <br />Viola pubescens <br />Hammemalis virginiana <br />Prunus virginiana <br />Viburnum lentago <br />2' <br />2' <br />3' <br />3' <br />3' <br />2' <br />4' <br />3' <br />5' <br />1' <br />2' <br />5' <br />2' <br />3' <br />3' <br />3' <br />2' <br />2' <br />4' <br />3' <br />3' <br />4' <br />4' <br />2' <br />5' <br />3' <br />5' <br />7' <br />3' <br />2' <br />2' <br />7' <br />5' <br />1' <br />15' <br />6' <br />20' <br />white <br />red <br />cream <br />white <br />blue <br />lav <br />purple <br />red/gr <br />blue/wh <br />yellow <br />yellow <br />blue <br />white <br />green <br />cream <br />green <br />white <br />white <br />blue <br />pink <br />blue <br />white <br />yellow <br />red/gr <br />yellow <br />yellow <br />white <br />white <br />May -Jun <br />May -Jul <br />Jun -Aug <br />Jun -Aug <br />Jun -Aug <br />Apr -Jun <br />Jul -Aug <br />Jun -Sep <br />Jul -Oct <br />Apr -Jul <br />May -Jun <br />May -Jul <br />Jun -Jul <br />Aug -Oct <br />Jul -Oct <br />Sep -Oct <br />Aug -Oct <br />Apr -May <br />Jun -Aug <br />May -Jun <br />Jun -Aug <br />Jul -Aug <br />Jul -Aug <br />Apr -Jul <br />Jun -Jul <br />Jun -Sep <br />Jul -Oct <br />Jul -Sep <br />Apr -May <br />May -Jun <br />Jul -Oct <br />May -Jul <br />Apr -May <br />October <br />Jun -Aug <br />May -Jun <br />Eta <br />