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The Library Garden Plant List

 Common Name Botanical Name
 Alyssum Alyssum 'Snow Crystals'
 Black Cornflower Centaurea 'Black Ball'
 Shasta Daisy hybrids Chrysanthemum ssp.
 Spider Flower Cleome spinosa
 Coreopsis Coreopsis rosea
 Cosmos Cosmos 'Sonata Mix'
 Cone Flower Echinacaea 'Bright Star'
 Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium fistulosum 'Gateway'
 Queen-of-the-Prarie Filipendula venusta magnificum
 Globe Amaranth Gomphrena 'Lavender Lady'
 Purple Coral Bells Huechera 'Palace Purple'
 Candytuft Iberis sempervirens
 Shrub Clover Lespedeza thunbergii
 Loosestrife Lythrum 'Mordens Gleam'
 Bee Balm Monarda didyma 'Mahogany'
 Perilla Perilla fructescens
 False Dragonhead Physostegia 'Vivid'
 Mist Cherry Prunus 'Hally Jolivette'
 Fairy Rose Rosa 'The Fairy'
 Showy Stonecrop Sedum spectabile 'Brilliant'
 Spirea Spirea 'Shirobana'
 Lamb's Ears Stachys lanata
 Pink-flowering Thyme Thymus 'Bressingham Pink'
 Verbena Verbena bonariensis
 Zinnia Zinnia 'Star White'

 

Botanical Names

The small flags flying from our tall ships are international code flags. Sailors from all countries understand what they mean. Plants have international names too. They are called botanical names. If you know the plant's botanical name you can "plant talk" with anyone in the world!

 

 

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