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Anethum graveolens
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Common Name: Dill 'Bouquet'
Bloom Season: Yellow
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Caterpillar food. Reseeds readily. Sow or plant several times in spring and summer for constant supply |
Desmanthus illinoisis
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Common Name: Illinois Bundleflower
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Panhandle native, important native legume. Good as dried flower. Nice winter interest in seedpods. |
Dalea villosa
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Common Name: Silky Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Lavender
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 15"
Mature Width: 15"
Description:
Attractive perennial, hairy leaves and 3-5" flower spikes with lavender flowers. Grows on sand dunes. |
Dalea purpurea
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Common Name: Purple Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:
Highly nutritious forage plant.woody taproot |
Dalea pulchra
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Common Name: Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 40"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:
NOT ZONED HERE-SUNSET TRIAL- Pima Co, AZ Balls of Purple flowers. Silvery shrublets. |
Dalea jamesii
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Common Name: James's Prairie Clover
Bloom Season: Spring
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 3"
Mature Width: 5"
Description:
Tufts of sivery-green, fingered foliage carry balls of silver wool embedded with lemon flowers. The whole plant smells like lemon. |
Dalea greggii
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Common Name: Trailing Indigo Bush
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 48"
Description:
Mounding groundcover with silver leaves and blooms in spring and early summer. Garden Notes: Prune back to the main stem annually in early winter or early spring, before new growth begins. During prolonged summer droughts, water deeply once a month. Numerous long, trailing, ground-covering stems from a woody base will root at the nodes to form a tight, low mounding colony with evergreen gray-green compound leaves and spikes of small rose-lavender to purple flowers in early spring through summer. Low water, full sun to light part shade, well draining soil. Foliage hardy to 15°, root hardy below that. Good, fast growing, soil stabilizing groundcover, very drought tolerant once established.
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Dalea frutescens
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Common Name: Black Dalea 'Sierra Negra'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple/Yellow/White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Tiny green leaves with black stems. Purple and yellow pea shaped blooms. Tolerates richer soils. |
Dalea candida
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Common Name: White Prarie Clover
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
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Dalea bicolor v argyraea 'Monterrey Blue'
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Common Name: Indigo Bush 'Monterrey Blue'
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Low silvery shrublets bear attractive heads of bright purple with white in autumn. Zone 7? Garden Notes: Native to the Trans-Pecos where it grows in rocky limestone. Hardy to about 10 degrees. It is extremely drought and heat tolerant. Rapid growth form hard spring pruning.
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