Penny Road Elementary School North Carolina Native Plant Garden Next Designed by Austen Adler March 2008
This slideshow was prepared to help you identify most of the native plants in our trail side garden. To continue through the slideshow simply click on the buttons marked “Next”. Next To see the Scientific (or Latin) name, click the yellow cube By Austen Adler! 2008
Mayapple Next
Stems 12 to 18 inches tall 1 or 2 umbrella shaped leaves A single white flower about 1 inch wide blooms in May Mayapple Next Podophyllum peltatum
Wild Ginger Next
Two heart shaped leaves Smells like ginger Single flower blooms in spring Wild Ginger Next Asarum canadense
Cinnamon Fern Next
Wide green fronds grow in a circle 2-5 feet tall and wide Woolly fronds grow straight up in the center looking like cinnamon sticks Cinnamon Fern Next Osmunda cinnamomea
Christmas Fern Next
1 to 3 feet tall and wide Narrow evergreen fronds grow in clumps New fronds on many types of ferns are called “fiddleheads” Christmas Fern Fiddlehead Next Polystichum acrostichoides
Royal Fern Next
Fronds are 2-3 feet long and 1 foot wide Grows in clumps Deciduous Royal Fern Next Osmunda regalis
Coral Honeysuckle Next
Twining woody vine Leaves are smooth, 1-3 inches long Flowers are 2 inches long, Coral red outside, yellow inside Coral Honeysuckle Next Lonicera sempervirens
Crossvine Next
Crossvine Evergreen ground cover vine Orange to red flowers trimmed with yellow Blooms in spring and summer Next Bignonia capreolata
Next Blue Wood Aster
Wood Aster Symphyotrichum cordifolium Next Pale lavender-blue 3/4 inch flowers Blooms in fall 2 to 3 feet tall Heart shaped leaves with sharp teeth Blue
Blue Wood Sedge Next
Carex flaccosperma Blue Wood Sedge Bluish-green leaves Evergreen 1 foot tall and 1 foot wide Next
Fringe tree Next
Fringe Tree 12 to 15 feet high Blooms in mid spring Long fragrant white blooms look like an old man’s beard Deciduous Chionanthus virginicus Old Man’s Beard Next
Atamasco Lily vv Next
Atamasco Lily Zephyranthes atamasco Blooms in March to April A 3 inch flower changes from white to pink Several half inch wide leaves About 15 inches high (Rain Lily) Next Zephyranthes atamasco
Sundrops Next
Up to 2 feet tall 5 yellow petals 2 inches across Blooms in late spring and early summer Dark green ridged leaves Sundrops Oenothera fruticosa End