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Sheldon Garden Plant List

Herbaceous Plants
Latin Name	Common Name

*Allium cernuum*	Nodding Pink Onion
*Andropogon gerardii*	Big Bluestem
*Aquilegia canadensis*	Wild Columbine
*Asclepias tuberosa*	Butterfly Milkweed
*Baptisia australis*	False Indigo
*Bouteloua curtipendula*	Sideoats Grama
*Crambe cordifolia*	Crambe
*Chrysopsis villosa*	Golden Aster
*Dalea purpurea*	Purple Prairie Clover
*Desmanthus illinoensis*	Illinois Bundleflower
*Echinacea pallida*	Pale Coneflower
*Echinacea purpurea*	Purple Coneflower
*Elymus canadensis*	Canada Wild Rye
*Eryngium yuccifolium*	Rattlesnake Master
*Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Burgundy'*	Burgundy Blanket Flower
*Gaura lindheimeri*	White Gaura
*Heliopsis helianthoides*	Ox-eye Sunflower
*Oenothera macrocarpa*	Missouri Primrose
*Panicum virgatum*	Switch Grass
*Ratibida pinnata*	Grayhead Prairie Coneflower
*Ruellia humilis*	Wild Petunia
*Salvia azurea ssp. pitcherii 'Nekan'*	Nekan Pitcher Sage
*Sedum 'Indian Chief'*	Indian Chief Sedum
*Sorghastrum nutans*	Indian Grass
*Sporobulus heterolepis*	Prairie Dropseed
*Vernonia fasciculata*	Western Ironweed
*Veronica spicata 'Blue Peter'*	Blue Peter Speedwell
*Yucca filamentosa*	Yucca

Woody Plants
Latin Name	Common Name

*Acer rubrum 'Armstrong'*	Armstrong Red Maple
*Betula maximowicziana*	Monarch Birch
*Betula pendula*	European White Birch
*Catalpa bignonioides*	Southern Catalpa
*Catalpa speciosa*	Northern Catalpa
*Ginkgo biloba*	Ginkgo
*Liquidambar styraciflua*	American Sweetgum
*Liquidambar styraciflua 'Moraine'*	Moraine Sweetgum
*Liriodendron tulipifera*	Tulip Tree
*Maackia amurensis*	Amur Maackii
*Magnolia stellata*	Star Magnolia
*Magnolia x soulangiana*	Saucer Magnolia
*Myrica pennsylvanica*	Northern Bayberry
*Phellodendron amurense*	Amur Corktree
*Sorbaria sorbifolia*	Ural Falsespirea