Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 26 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

Sun ☀️Full Sun ⛅Part Sun/Shade ☁️Shade

Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

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Acid-loving Perennials (Ferns)

Polypodiophyta (various genera)

Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Asarum

Asarum spp.

Canadian wild ginger

Asarum canadense

Asarum Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Asplenifolia

Asplenium ebeneum

Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

Bugle

Ajuga reptans

Cool-growing ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

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Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

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Garlic Mustard

Alliaria petiolata

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

Great Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum

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Hawaiian Native Ginger

Zingiber zerumbet (Awapuhi) and other endemic species

Hay-scented Fern

Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Golden Deadnettle

Lamium aureum

Native Ginger

Asarum canadense

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Native Understory Ferns

Pteridophyta (various genera including Polystichum, Adiantum, Osmunda, Dryopteris)

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Queen Josephine Hosta

Hosta 'Queen Josephine'

Small Alpine Ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum lonchitis, Cystopteris fragilis, Asplenium viride)

Black Snakeroot

Cimicifuga racemosa

False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

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Wild Sarsaparilla

Aralia nudicaulis

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