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The Lurie Garden Plant List

Native symbolizes these plants as native to North America. Refer to the Conservation Foundation

and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to learn more about these plants.

Please check our website as it is being updated regularly.

Perennials

Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ – Giant Hyssop

Agastache rupestris - Hyssop

Allium ‘Summer Beauty’ – Ornamental Onion

Amorpha canescens – Leadplant - Native

Amsonia ‘Blue Ice’ – Blue Star - Native

Amsonia hubrichtii – Arkansas Blue Star - Native

Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia – Willowleaf Blue Star

Anemone hupehensis ‘Praecox’ – Japanese Anemone

Anemone hupehensis ‘Splendens’ – Japanese Anemone

Anemone japonica ‘Honorine Jobert’ – Japanese Anemone

Anemone leveillei – Windflower

Aruncus ‘Horatio’ – Goatsbeard

Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed – Native

Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed – Native

Aster ‘October Skies’ - Aster

Aster divaricatus – White Wood Aster - Native

Aster novae-angliae ‘Violetta’ – New England Aster – Native

Aster oblongifolius ‘October Skies’ – October Skies Aster – Native

Aster tataricus ‘Jindai’ – Tatarian Aster

Astilbe chinensis var.taquetii ‘Purpurlanze’ – Purple Lance Astilbe

Astilbe ‘Maggie Daley’ - Astilbe

Astrantia major ‘Claret’ – Masterwort

Astrantia major ‘Roma’ – Masterwort

Baptisia leucantha – Wild White Indigo - Native

Baptisia ‘Purple Smoke’ – Hybrid Wild Indigo

Calamintha nepeta subsp.nepeta – Calamint

Campanula glomerata ‘Caroline’ – Clustered Bellflower

Cerastostigma plumbaginoides – Plumbago

Coreopsis verticillata ‘Golden Showers’ – Thread Leaf Tickseed - Native

Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover – Native

Datisca cannabina - Datisca

Digitalis ferruginea – Rusty Foxglove

Dodecatheon ‘Aphrodite’ – Shooting Star - Native

Echinacea pallida – Pale Coneflower – Native

Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Edge’ – Coneflower – Native

Echinacea purpurea ‘Rubinglow’ – Coneflower – Native

Echinacea tennesseensis – Tennessee Coneflower – Native

Echinacea ‘Orange Meadowbrite’ – Coneflower

Echinacea ‘Sunset’ - Coneflower

Echinops bannaticus ‘Blue Glow’ – Globe Thistle

Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Lilafee’ – Longspur Barrenwort

Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’ – Bishop’s Hat

Eryngium bourgatii – Mediterranean Sea Holly

Eryngium ‘Big Sky’ – Sea Holly

Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake Master – Native

Eupatorium maculatum ‘Gateway’ – Joe Pye Weed – Native

Eupatorium maculatum ‘Purple Bush’ – Joe Pye Weed – Native

Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’ – Joe Pye Weed - Native

Filipendula rubra ‘Venusta Magnifica’ – Queen of the Prairie – Native

Gaura ‘Blushing Beauty - Gaura

Gentiana andrewsii – Gentian - Native

Geum rivale ‘Flames of Passion’ - Avens

Geum triflorum – Prairie Smoke – Native

Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Karmina’ – Cranesbill

Geranium ‘Brookside’ – Cranesbill

Geranium ‘Jolly Bee’ - Cranesbill

Geranium ‘Dilys’ – Cranesbill

Geranium phaeum f. album – Dusky Cranesbill

Geranium sanguineum ‘Max Frei’ - Cranesbill

Geranium x oxonianum ‘Claridge Druce’ – Cranesbill

Geranium soboliferum – Cranesbill - Native

Gillenia trifoliata – Bowman’s Root – Native

Helenium ‘Rubinzwerg’ – Sneezeweed or Helen’s Flower

Helleborus orientalis – Lenten Rose

Hemerocallis ‘Gentle Shepherd’ – Daylily

Hemerocallis ‘Chicago Apache’ – Daylily

Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’ – Coral Flower

Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’ – Coral Bell – Native

Heuchera richardsonii – Coral Bells - Native

Hosta ‘Blue Angel’ – Hosta

Hosta ‘Halycon’ – Hosta

Hosta ‘Krossa Regal’ - Hosta

Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ - Hosta

Hosta ‘White Triumphator’ – Hosta

Inula magnifica ‘Sonnestrahl’ – Fleabane

Jeffersonia diphylla – Twinleaf - Native

Kalimeris incisa – Cast-iron Plant

Knautia macedonica - Knautia

Liatris spicata – Blazing Star - Native

Liatris spicata ‘Alba’ – White Blazing Star – Native

Limonium latifolium – Sea Lavender

Lythrum alatum – Loosestrife - Native

Mertensia virginica – Virginia Bluebells - Native

Mondarda didyma ‘Scorpion’ – Bee-Balm

Nepeta faassenii ‘Walker’s Low’ – Catmint

Nepeta subsessilis ‘Sweet Dreams’ - Catmint

Origanum vulgare ‘Herrenhausen’ - Oregano

Paeonia lactiflora ‘Jan Van Leeuwen’ – Peony

Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firedance’– Knotweed

Persicaria polymorpha – White Dragon Knotweed

Phlomis tuberosa ‘Amazone’ – Phlomis

Phlox maculata ‘Delta’ – Wild Sweet William - Native

Polystichum setiferum ‘Herrenhausen’ – Soft Shield Fern

Pycnanthemum muticum – Mountain Mint - Native

Rodgersia pinnata ‘Superba’ – Featherleaf Rodgersia

Rudbeckia occidentalis ‘Black Beauty’ – Coneflower - Native

Ruellia humilis – Wild Petunia – Native

Salvia azurea – Azure Sage - Native

Saliva glutinosa – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Blue Hill’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Dear Anja’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris ‘May Night’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Amethyst’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestirs ‘Rugen’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Wesuwe’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia verticillata ‘Purple Rain’ – Meadow Sage

Salvia pratensis ‘Pink Delight’ – Meadow Sage

Sanguisorba menziesii -  Burnet – Native

Sanguisorba canadensis ‘Red Thunder’ – Canadian Burnet

Saponaria x lempergii ‘Max Frei’ – Soapwort

Scutellaria incana – Skullcap – Native

Sedum x hybrida ‘Bertram Anderson’ – Stonecrop – Native

Sedum ‘Red Cauli’ - Stonecrop

Silphium laciniatum – Compass plant – Native

Smilacina racemosa – False Solomon’s-Seal – Native

Solidago ‘Fireworks’ – Goldenrod - Native

Stachys officinalis ‘Hummelo’ – Betony or Hedgenettle

Stachys officinalis ‘Rosea’ – Betony or Hedgenettle

Thalictrum delavayi ‘Elin’ – Meadow-Rue

Tradescantia ‘Concord Grape – Spiderwort - Native

Tricyrtis formosana – Toad-Lily

Tricyrtis x ‘Tojen’ – Toad-Lily

Veronica longifolia ‘Pink Damask’ – Speedwell

Veronica longifolia ‘Eveline’ - Speedwell

Veronica spicata ‘Giles Van Hees’ - Speedwell

Veronica longifolia ‘Lila Karina’ - Speedwell

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Rosea’ – Culver’s Root - Native

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Temptation’ – Culver’s Root - Native

Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Diane’ - Culver’s Root – Native

Zizia aurea – Golden Alexander’s – Native

Grasses and Sedges

Briza media – Quaking Grass

Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ – Feather Reed Grass

Calamagrostis brachytricha – Korean Feather Reed Grass

Carex muskingumensis – Palm Sedge – Native

Carex pennsylvanica – Pennsylvania Sedge - Native

Chasmanthium latifolium – Northern Sea Oats – Native

Deschampsia caespitosa ‘Goldstaub’ – Tufted Hair Grass – Native

Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass – Native

Hakenochloa macra – Hakone Grass

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Malepartus’ – Common Eulalia Grass

Molinia caerulea ‘Dauerstrahl’ – Moor Grass

Molinia caerulea ‘Moorflamme’ – Moor Flame Grass

Molinia litoralis ‘Transparent’ – Moor Grass

Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ – Red Switch Grass - Native

Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Cassian’ – Fountain Grass

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ – Little Bluestem – Native

Sesleria autumnalis – Moor Grass

Sesleria nitida – Nest Moor Grass

Sorghastrum nutans ‘Sioux Blue’ – Indian Grass – Native

Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed – Native

Sporobolus heterolepis ‘Tara’ – Prairie Dropseed - Native

 


Shrubs

Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Black Knight’ – Bluebeard

Perovskia ‘Little Spire’ – Russian Sage

Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Renkaku’ – Tree Peony

Vitex agnus castus – Chaste Tree

Taxus cuspidate ‘Capitata’ - Yew

Taxus x media ‘Hicksii’ - Yew

Taxus cuspidate ‘Dwarf Bright Gold’ - Yew

Euonymus alatus ‘Compacta’ – Burning Bush

Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’ - Lilac

 


Bulbs

Allium christophii – Star of Persia

Allium aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’

Allium atropurpureum – Ornamental Onion

Allium sphaerocephalon – Drumstick Allium

Anemone blanda ‘Blue Shades’ - Windflower

Camassia leichtlinii ‘Blue Danube’ - Quamash

Camassia cusickii - Quamash

Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Blue Giant’ – Glory of the Snow

Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Violet Beauty’ – Glory of the Snow

Chionodoxa sardensis – Glory of the Snow

Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barrs Purple’ – Crocus

Fritillaria pallidiflora – Fritillary

Muscari aremeniacum ‘Superstar’ – Grape Hyacinth

Narcissus ‘Lemon Drops’ – Daffodil

Narcissus ‘Thalia’ – Daffodil

Narcissus ‘Jenny’ – Daffodil

Narcissus poeticus – Daffodil

Scilla mischtschenkoana - Squill

Tulipa aucheriana – Species Tulip

Tulipa bakeri ‘Lilac Wonder’ – Species Tulip

Tulipa hageri ‘Splendens’ – Species Tulip

Tulipa polychroma – Species Tulip

Tulipa turkestanica – Species Tulip

Tulipa wilsoniana – Species Tulip

Tulipa urumiensis – Species Tulip

Tulipa ‘Spring Green’ - Tulip

Tulipa ‘Ballade’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Don Quichotte’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Ivory Floradale’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Maureen’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Purissima’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Queen of Night’ – Tulip

Tulipa ‘Tres Chic’ – Tulip

 


Shoulder Hedge Plantings

Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’ - Hornbeam

Fagus sylvatica – European Beech

Thuja occidentalis ‘Nigra’ - Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis ‘Wintergreen’ - Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis ‘Pyramidalis’ - Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis ‘Brabant’ - Arborvitae

Thuja standishii x plicata ‘Spring Grove’ - Arborvitae

 


Trees

Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ – Autumn Flowering Cherry

Prunus sargentii – Sargent Cherry

Cercis canadensis – Easter Redbud - Native

Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Chicago Blues’ – Black Locust - Native

Quercus macrocarpa x bicolor ‘Schuettii’ – Swamp White Oak - Native

 



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