Plant Growing Guides

Acid-loving Perennials (Ferns)

Polypodiophyta (various genera)

Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Archangel

Lamium album subsp. album

Asarum

Asarum spp.

Canadian wild ginger

Asarum canadense

Asarum Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Asplenifolia

Asplenium ebeneum

Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Bishop's Weed Argenteum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Argenteum'

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

Bugle

Ajuga reptans

Cool-growing ferns

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

Dead Nettle

Lamium album

False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

Garlic Mustard

Alliaria petiolata

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

Great Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum

Hawaiian Native Ginger

Zingiber zerumbet (Awapuhi) and other endemic species

Hay-scented Fern

Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Golden Deadnettle

Lamium aureum

Locally Endemic Herbs

Various species (region-dependent)

Native Ginger

Asarum canadense

Native Understory Ferns

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

Creeping Undergrowth Liverwort

Plagiochila asplenioides

Queen Josephine Hosta

Hosta 'Queen Josephine'

Redwood Sorrel

Oxalis oregana

Shade-loving Herbs Collection

Asperula odorata (Woodruff), Symphytum officinale (Comfrey), Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm)

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

Wild Sarsaparilla

Aralia nudicaulis