2. Penny Road Elementary School North Carolina Native Plant Garden Next Designed by Austen Adler March 2008

3. 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

4. Mayapple Next

5. 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

6. Wild Ginger Next

7. Two heart shaped leaves Smells like ginger Single flower blooms in spring Wild Ginger Next Asarum canadense

8. Cinnamon Fern Next

9. 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

10. Christmas Fern Next

11. 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

12. Royal Fern Next

13. Fronds are 2-3 feet long and 1 foot wide Grows in clumps Deciduous Royal Fern Next Osmunda regalis

14. Coral Honeysuckle Next

15. 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

16. Crossvine Next

17. Crossvine Evergreen ground cover vine Orange to red flowers trimmed with yellow Blooms in spring and summer Next Bignonia capreolata

18. Next Blue Wood Aster

19. 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

20. Blue Wood Sedge Next

21. Carex flaccosperma Blue Wood Sedge Bluish-green leaves Evergreen 1 foot tall and 1 foot wide Next

22. Fringe tree Next

23. 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

24. Atamasco Lily vv Next

25. 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

26. Sundrops Next

27. 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