SANTOLINA rosmarinifolia
(san-toe-LEE-nah) (rose-ma-reen-ih-FO-lee-a) | SANTRO3 |
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| Common Name: Lavender Cotton |
| Description: Dark green, glabrous, very aromatic foliage. Yellow flowers July-August. |
| Zone: 6 |
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SANTOLINA rosmarinifolia
(san-toe-LEE-nah) (rose-ma-reen-ih-FO-lee-a) | SANTRO1 |
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| Common Name: Lavender Cotton |
| Description: Dark green, glabrous, very aromatic foliage. Yellow flowers July-August. |
| Zone: 6 |
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SANTOLINA virens
(san-toe-LEE-nah) (VI-rens) | SANTVI1 |
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| Common Name: Lavender Cotton |
| Description: Dark green, scented foliage with soft yellow flowers. Useful for edging or low border; can be sheared. (Ours is not rosmarinifolia.) |
| Zone: 7 |
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SANTOLINA virens
(san-toe-LEE-nah) (VI-rens) | SANTVI3 |
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| Common Name: Lavender Cotton |
| Description: Dark green, scented foliage with soft yellow flowers. Useful for edging or low border; can be sheared. (Ours is not rosmarinifolia.) |
| Zone: 7 |
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SAPONARIA ocymoides
(sa-po-NAH-ree-a) (o-kim-OY-deez) | SAPOOC1 |
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| Common Name: Soapwort |
| Description: RHS Award of Garden Merit. Bright pink flowers on broad, leafy plants. Good for rock garden or ground cover. |
| Zone: 2 |
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SAPONARIA ocymoides
(sa-po-NAH-ree-a) (o-kim-OY-deez) | SAPOOC3 |
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| Common Name: Soapwort |
| Description: RHS Award of Garden Merit. Bright pink flowers on broad, leafy plants. Good for rock garden or ground cover. |
| Zone: 2 |
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SAPONARIA x lempergii 'Max Frei'
(sa-po-NAH-ree-a) (lem-per-GEE-eye) | SAPOMF3 |
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| Common Name: Soapwort |
| Description: Clouds of bright pink flower masses with 1" blooms all summer. Blue-green foliage on compact plants. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SAPONARIA x oliviana
(sa-po-NAH-ree-a) (o-liv-ee-AN-uh) | SAPOOL3 |
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| Common Name: Soapwort |
| Description: RHS Award of Garden Merit. Absolutely the finest Saponaria for the rockery or trough. A large flowered hybrid of pumila and caespitosa. Its circular, attractive mound of green foliage puts forth its pink floral display in June. Put in well-drained site. Gotta have it! Limited supply. Available after 4/1. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SATUREJA montana
(sat-ew-RAY-a) (mon-TAN-ah) | HBSAMO3 |
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| Common Name: Winter Savory |
| Description: Spicy flavored herb with narrow leaves that are smaller and more aromatic than summer savory. Purplish-pink flowers. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SATUREJA montana var. illyrica
(sat-ew-RAY-a) (mon-TAN-ah) (il-LEER-ee-kuh) | HBSAIL3 |
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| Common Name: Purple Winter Savory |
| Description: 2007 Plant Select®. Deep blue-violet flowers on this attractive, prostrate growing form of the popular garden herb. Trim, evergreen mounds of foliage are covered with showy flowers late in the season. Needs well-drained soil. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SAURURUS cernuus
(SOUGH-rur-us) (SIR-new-us) | SAURCE5 |
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| Common Name: Lizard Tail |
| Description: Neat, green, cordate leaves on stems for the water garden or bog. 'Lizard's Tails' are the graceful, white tails of flowers to 3" on terminals during spring and summer. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCABIOSA atropurpurea 'Chat Noir'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (at-ro-pur-pur-ee-a) | SCABCH3 |
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| Description: French for Black Cat. Large, very dark red (almost black), white tipped, fully double, pincushion flowers with a pleasant fragrance. Unique color all season. Great cut flower- the more you cut, the more it blooms. |
| Zone: 7 |
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SCABIOSA caucasica 'Fama'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (kaw-KAZ-ih-kah) | SCABFA3 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: Intense lavender-blue flowers. Choice selection for cutting. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (ko-lum-BAH-ree-a) | SCABBB1 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: 2000 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year! A profusion of lavender-blue flowers all summer on this outstanding cultivar originally discovered in Ireland. Compact habit does not require staking. Be ready for the demand created by publicity! |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (ko-lum-BAH-ree-a) | SCABBB3 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: 2000 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year! A profusion of lavender-blue flowers all summer on this outstanding cultivar originally discovered in Ireland. Compact habit does not require staking. Be ready for the demand created by publicity! |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (ko-lum-BAH-ree-a) | SCABBB5 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: 2000 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year! A profusion of lavender-blue flowers all summer on this outstanding cultivar originally discovered in Ireland. Compact habit does not require staking. Be ready for the demand created by publicity! |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA columbaria 'Giant Blue' PP# 12,167
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (ko-lum-BAH-ree-a) | SCABGB3 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: Proven SelectionTM. Immense, 3", lavender-blue flowers twice the size of 'Butterfly Blue'. Propagation Prohibited. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA columbaria 'Giant Blue' PP# 12,167
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (ko-lum-BAH-ree-a) | SCABGB5 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: Proven SelectionTM. Immense, 3", lavender-blue flowers twice the size of 'Butterfly Blue'. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCABIOSA superba 'Mongolian Mist'
(skab-ee-OH-sah) (soo-PER-ba) | SCABMM3 |
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| Common Name: Pincushion Flower |
| Description: 2004 GreatPlantsTM Release. Large, dazzling purple-blue, full pincushions arising from substantial stems above elegant, deep green, textured mounds. The originals were collected by GreatPlants members Gustafson, Bieberich, Morrissey, and Hamernik in 1997 on a mountain north of Hohot, Inner Mongolia. Rigorous selection since has given us 'Mongolian Mist'. |
| Zone: 3 |
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SCHISANDRA chinensis
(skis-AN-dra) (chin-EN-sis) | SCHICH5 |
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| Common Name: Magnolia Vine |
| Description: Attractive, hardy, climbing, dioecious vine. A Chinese, medicinal herb; its red berries are used to enhance the immune system and treat ailments. Small, white flowers. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCHIZACHYRIUM s. 'MinnBlueA' PP#17,310 Blue Heaven
(skiz-ah-KEER-ee-um) (sko-PAR-ee-um) | GRSCBH5 |
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| Description: 2013 GreatPlants Grass of the Year. Introduction from the University of MN. Blue-gray foliage in the summer turning burgundy-red with purple and violet highlights in September lasting well into November. Taller, more upright form than is typical of little bluestem, remains upright, and does not fall down or 'lodge'. Small, fluffy, white flowers form in August and September. Propagation Prohibited. |
| Zone: 3 |
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SCHIZACHYRIUM scoparium 'Blaze'
(skiz-ah-KEER-ee-um) (sko-PAR-ee-um) | GRSCBL5 |
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| Common Name: Little Bluestem |
| Description: 1998 GreatPlantsTM Perennial of the Year! Colorful, fine-leaved, warm season bunch grass. Russet-red through fall and winter. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCHIZACHYRIUM scoparium 'Blaze'
(skiz-ah-KEER-ee-um) (sko-PAR-ee-um) | GRSCBL3 |
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| Common Name: Little Bluestem |
| Description: 1998 GreatPlantsTM Perennial of the Year! Colorful, fine-leaved, warm season bunch grass. Russet-red through fall and winter. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCHIZACHYRIUM scoparium 'The Blues'
(skiz-ah-KEER-ee-um) (sko-PAR-ee-um) | GRSCTB5 |
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| Description: True, deep blue foliage and exceptional, burgundy-red fall color. Tolerates heat and humidity. Perfect grass for mass plantings. |
| Zone: 5 |
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SCROPHULARIA macrantha
(skro-few-LAH-ree-a) (MAK-ran-tha) | SCROMA3 |
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| Common Name: Red Birds in a Tree |
| Description: 2008 Plant Select®. Bright cherry red, tubular, bird-shaped flowers in panicles from July-October. Top stems of dark green leaves. Native; can stand xeric sites. |
| Zone: 6 |
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SCUTELLARIA alpina 'Arcobaleno' ['Rainbow']
(sku-te-LAH-ree-a) (al-PINE-a) | SCUTAR3 |
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| Common Name: Skull Cap, Helmet Flower |
| Description: Attractive, Asian, medicinal herb with flowers of violet, blue, white, pink, and yellow, as well as bicolor. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCUTELLARIA 'Purple Fountain'
(sku-te-LAH-ree-a) | SCUTPF4 |
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| Description: One of the brightest and most flashy colors anywhere, this vivid violet-purple everblooming Scutellaria is guaranteed to set your combo planters apart. The 2" long, tubular flowers in terminal clusters also make a show in the border if the site is well-drained. |
| Zone: 8 |
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SCUTELLARIA resinosa 'Smoky Hills'
(sku-te-LAH-ree-a) (res-in-OH-sa) | SCUTSH3 |
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| Common Name: Skull Cap, Helmet Flower |
| Description: 2004 GreatPlantsTM Release. Deep blue or purplish flowers tipped with two, small white patches from May-July. Growing in a rounded form, the plants have leaves with grayish pubescence. This handsome Great Plains native is an essential. Available after 4/1. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCUTELLARIA scoridifolia 'Mongolian Skies'
(sku-te-LAH-ree-a) (scor-ee-di-FO-lee-a) | SCUTMS3 |
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| Common Name: Skull Cap, Helmet Flower |
| Description: 2004 GreatPlantsTM Introduction. A selection collected by the GreatPlantsTM group in Inner Mongolia. Bluish-purple, tubular, hooded flowers on low mat, rhizome forming, hardy perennial. Shining, deep green, narrow leaves; likes sunny, well-drained location. Available after 4/1. |
| Zone: 4 |
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SCUTELLARIA suffrutescens
(sku-te-LAH-ree-a) (suf-roo-TESS-enz) | SCUTSU3 |
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| Common Name: Texas Rose, Cherry Skullcap, Pink Skullcap |
| Description: 2004 Plant Select®. Incredible rose-red flowers all summer on neat, durable plants. Attractive rock garden plant from cuttings. |
| Zone: 7 |
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