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Tweeting about Ontario native plants in an effort to raise awareness about gardening with natives. 💚 the species you have in your yard. #PlantNative

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#RoundheadedBushClover (Lespedeza capitata): Upright stems & trifoliate leaves are covered with fine hairs. Clover-like flowers are greenish-white and held in clusters.
Height: 2-4 ft
Water:💧
Light: ☀️
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#MapleleafViburnum (Viburnum acerifolium): A low, densely branched shrub. Clusters of white flowers are followed by blue-black berries. Green, deciduous foliage, maple-like in shape, is very colourful in fall.
Height: 4-6 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️☁️
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#DownyPagodaPlant (Blephilia ciliata): A woodland species. Lance-shaped leaves are whitish beneath. Lavender, two-lipped flowers are crowded into whorled clusters in the axils of the upper leaves.
Height: 1-2 ft
Water:💧
Light: ⛅️☁️
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#Groundnut (Apios americana): A climbing, non-woody vine with maroon or reddish-brown pea-like flowers in compact racemes arising from leaf axils. This legume has a cord-like rootstalk with edible tubers.
Height: 3-18 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️
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#CarpentersSquare (Scrophularia marilandica): A four-sided, grooved stem bearing a branching, somewhat pyramidal, terminal cluster of small, erect, sac-shaped, greenish-brown flowers with magenta-brown interiors.
Height: 3-8 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ⛅️
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#FloweringDogwood (Cornus florida): A single- or multi-trunked tree with a spreading crown and showy, white and pink spring blooms. Red fruits and scarlet-red fall foliage are other landscape attributes.
Height: 12-36 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ⛅️☁️
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#Springbeauty (Claytonia virginica): A low plant with loose clusters of pink or whitish flowers, striped with dark pink. A pair of smooth, grass-like leaves occurs halfway up the slender stem.
Height: 4-12 in
Water:💧💧💧
Light: ⛅️
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#Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia): Tall & unbranched w/ alternate medium-green leaves that taper to petiole-like bases. The upper stem terminates in a dome-shaped panicle of daisy-shaped yellow flowerheads.
Height: 3-8 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️
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#RedOsierDogwood (Cornus sericea): A loose, multi-stemmed shrub w/ conspicuous red twigs. Dense, flat-topped clusters of creamy-white blossoms are followed by umbrella-shaped clusters of white berries.
Height: 6-12 ft
Water:💧💧💧
Light: ⛅️
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#Twinflower (Linnaea borealis): A creeping ground cover with trailing stems that bear glossy evergreen leaves. The delicately fragrant flowers are pinkish, bell-shaped and in nodding pairs.
Height: 4-6 in
Water:💧💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️☁️
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#CutleafAnemone (Anemone multifida): A loosely clumped perennial with slender, silky-haired stems and long-petioled leaves. Flowers are yellowish-white within; greenish, yellowish or purplish and silky outside.
Height: 1-3 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️☁️
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#KingoftheMeadow (Thalictrum pubescens): A tall perennial with interesting, glaucous foliage that features 3 or more leaflets with rounded lobes. Cream-colored flowers have numerous, showy, thread-like stamens.
Height: 3-8 ft
Water:💧💧💧
Light: ⛅️
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#Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana): A small tree or tall shrub w/ spreading branches that form an irregular, open crown. Fragrant, yellow flowers appear in the fall, persisting after leaf drop. #plantnative
Height: 10-15 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ⛅️☁️
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#EasternPricklyPear (Opuntia humifusa): A clump-forming cactus bearing yellow flowers, often with reddish centres, and flat, fleshy, green pads covered with clusters of reddish-brown bristles. Endangered in Ontario.
Height: 8-12 in
Water:💧
Light: ☀️
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@VIGOUROSO Your question about common snowberry’s native range.

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#CommonSnowberry (Symphoricarpos albus): A sparsely branched shrub. Slender, wiry twigs bear small, opposite leaves and inconspicuous flower clusters followed by large, snow white berries.
Height: 2-5 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️ ⛅️☁️
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#NorthernBayberry (Morella pensylvanica): A spreading, much-branched shrub w/ glossy, fragrant green, egg-shaped leaves. Clusters of small, round, hard, white berries remain on the female plant all winter.
Height: 3-12 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️⛅️
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#BottleGentian (Gentiana andrewsii): A robust plant with narrow, purplish leaves whorled or opposite below clusters of purple flowers which stay closed.
Height: 1-2 ft
Water:💧💧💧
Light: ⛅️☁️
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@AustinWolff3 Winterberry bloom and subsequently fruit best when they are established - usually after 2-3 years in the ground. Newly planted winterberries (and especially very small plants) will need some time to develop a good root system and put on new growth before they will fruit.

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#Winterberry (Ilex verticillata): Extremely showy in late fall and early winter when covered with their bright red fruit, the leaves are not shaped with sharp teeth like other hollies and are not evergreen.
Height: 6-10 ft
Water:💧💧
Light: ☀️ ⛅️☁️
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