Penny Road ElementarySchool

North Carolina

Native PlantGarden

NextDesigned by Austen AdlerMarch 2008

This slideshow was prepared to help you identify most of thenative plants in our trail side garden.

To continue through the slideshow simply click on the buttonsmarked “Next”.

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To see the Scientific (or Latin) name, click the yellow cube

By Austen Adler!2008

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Stems 12 to 18 inchestall

1 or 2 umbrella shaped leaves

A single white flowerabout 1 inch wideblooms in May

Mayapple

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Podophyllumpeltatum

Wild Ginger Next

Two heart shaped leaves

Smells like ginger

Single flower blooms in spring

WildGinger

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Asarumcanadense

Cinnamon FernNext

Wide green frondsgrow in a circle 2-5 feet tall and wide

Woolly fronds grow straight up in the center looking like cinnamon sticks

Cinnamon Fern

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Osmunda cinnamomea

Christmas FernNext

1 to 3 feet tall and wide

Narrow evergreen frondsgrow in clumps

New fronds on many typesof ferns are called“fiddleheads”

Christmas Fern

Fiddlehead

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Polystichum acrostichoides

Royal Fern Next

Fronds are 2-3 feet longand 1 foot wide

Grows in clumps

Deciduous

Royal Fern

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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

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Lonicerasempervirens

Crossvine Next

Crossvine

Evergreen ground cover vine

Orange to red flowers trimmedwith yellow

Blooms in spring and summer

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Bignonia capreolata

NextBlue Wood Aster

Wood AsterSymphyotrichum

cordifolium

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Pale lavender-blue 3/4 inchflowers

Blooms in fall

2 to 3 feet tall

Heart shaped leaves with sharp teeth

Blue

Blue Wood Sedge

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Carex flaccosperma

Blue Wood Sedge

Bluish-green leaves

Evergreen

1 foot tall and 1 foot wide

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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

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Atamasco Lily

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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)

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Zephyranthes atamasco

Sundrops Next

Up to 2 feet tall

5 yellow petals2 inches across

Blooms in late springand early summer

Dark green ridged leaves

SundropsOenothera fruticosa

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