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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

Achillea 'Credo' – Yarrow

Achillea 'Walther Funcke' – Yarrow

Agastache 'Blue Fortune' – Giant Hyssop

Allium 'Summer Beauty' – Ornamental Onion

Amorpha canescens – Leadplant – Native

Amsonia hubrichtii – Arkansas Blue Star – Native

Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia – Willowleaf Blue Star

Anemone hupehensis 'Preacox' – Japanese Anemone

Anemone hupehensis 'Splendens' – Japanese Anemone

Anemone leveillei – Windflower

Aruncus 'Horatio' – Goatsbeard

Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed – Native

Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed – Native

Aster ericoides 'Blue Star' – Aster – Native

Aster 'October Skies' – Aster

Aster divaricatus – White Wood Aster – Native

Aster lateriflorus 'Horizontalis' – Calico Aster – Native

Aster novae-angliae 'Violetta' – New England Aster – Native

Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' – October Skies Aster – Native

Astilbe chinensis var.taquetii 'Purpurlanze' – Purple Lance 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

Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover – Native

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 x versicolor 'Sulphureum' – Bishop's Hat

Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee' – Longspur Barrenwort

Eryngium bourgatii – Mediterranean Sea Holly

Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake Master – Native

Eupatorium maculatum 'Gateway' – Joe Pye Weed – Native

Eupatorium maculatum 'Purple Bush' – Joe Pye Weed – Native

Filipendula rubra 'Venusta Magnifica' – Queen of the Prairie – Native

Gentiana andrewsii – Gentian – Native

Geum rivale 'Flames of Passion' – Avens

Geum triflorum – Prairie Smoke – Native

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Karmina' – 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

Hosta 'Blue Angel' – Hosta

Hosta 'Halycon' – Hosta

Hosta 'White Triumphator' – Hosta

Inula magnifica 'Sonnestrahl' – Fleabane

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

Origanum vulgare 'Herrenhausen' – Oregano

Paeonia lactiflora 'Jan Van Leeuwen' – Peony

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firedance'- Knotweed

Persicaria polymorpha – White Dragon Knotweed

Phlomis tuberosa 'Amazone' – Phlomis

Phlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise' – Garden Phlox – Native

Phlox maculata 'Delta' – Wild Sweet William – Native

Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen' – Soft Shield Fern

Rodgersia pinnata 'Superba' – Featherleaf Rodgersia

Ruellia humilis – Wild Petunia – Native

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

Silphium laciniatum – Compass plant – Native

Smilacina racemosa – False Solomon's-Seal – 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 spicata 'Giles Van Hees' – Speedwell

Veronica longifolia 'Lila Karina' – Speedwell

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Rosea' – Culver's Root – Native

Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination' – 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

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

Sorghastrum nutans 'Sioux Blue' – Indian Grass – Native

Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed – Native


Shrubs

Buxus micorphylla var. koreana 'Wintergreen'

Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Black Knight' – Bluebeard

Euonymus alatus 'Compacta'

Perovskia 'Little Spire' – Russian Sage

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Renkaku' – Tree Peony

Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'

Taxus cuspidate 'Capitata'

Taxus x media 'Hicksii'

Taxus cuspidate 'Dwarf Bright Gold'

Vitex agnus castus – Chaste Tree


Bulbs

Allium christophii

Allium atropurpureum

Allium sphaerocephalon – Drumstick Allium

Allium aflatunense 'Purple Sensation'

Camassia leichtlinii 'Blue Danube'

Camassia cusickii

Crocus vernus

Crocus sieberi ssp. 'Firefly'

Colchicum speciosa – fall

Tulipa hageri 'Splendens'

Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder'

Tulipa aucheriana

Tulipa 'Spring Green'

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Shoulder Hedge Plantings

Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'

Fagus sylvatica

Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra'

Thuja occidentalis 'Wintergreen'

Thuja occidentalis 'Pyramidalis'

Thuja occidentalis 'Brabant'

Thuja standishii x plicata 'Spring Grove'


Trees

Cercis canadensis

Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis'

Prunus sargentii

Quercus macrocarpa x bicolor 'Schuettii'

Robinia pseudoacacia 'Chicago Blues'



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