Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society

Dodecatheon meadia Shooting Star(found by Bartram on
banks of the Shenandoah, sent to
Collinson
Erythrina sp. Coral Tree [AL thinks is E.
corallodendron: P. Miller’s first sort
“grows naturally in SC from whence Mr.
Catesby sent the seeds in… 1724”]
Lady Jean Skipwith
1793
Virginia
raised fr. seed sown in fall- very
ornamental with little trouble Fraxinella
(see Dictamnus M.) ... Valuable
1. American cowslip(see Meadia)
Dodecatheon Bears Ear of Virginia
2. American cowslip(see Miller)
3.
1. Carolina Coral-tree(see Erythrina)
1 st sort - got the seed from Mrs.
Miller
2. Coral-tree (see Erythrinia) Mrs.
Miller's Scarlet Bean very
handsome.
3. Coral tree Mrs. Miller's scarlet
bean, very handsome.
Erythronium americanum 1. Dog's Tooth Violet
2. 2. Erythronium, Dog's Tooth
Violet - What we call Island
Martagon
Fumaria officinalis ? See Adlumia, Corydalis
Galanthus nivalis ? Large Snow Drop (see also Leucojum
vernum)
Fumaria – Insipid Fumatory etc.
Gelsemium sempervirens Carolina Jasmine Yellow Jasmine
Gladiolus communis Corn Flag
Gnapthalium sylvestris? See Artemisia
Hedysarum coronarium French honeysuckle
Helianthus annuus Sun Flower
Helleborus foetidus Stinking Hellebore Stinking Black Hellebore – Bear-foot or
Setterwort
Helichrysum orientale? See also Gnapthalium. AL. Has G.
sylvaticum
Cudweed Goldilocks, or Eternal
flower--raised fr. seeds sown in Apr. It
doesn't bear removing & fls. best the
first and second year
Hemerocallis flava Common Yellow Daylily
Hemerocallis fulva Common Tawny Daylily
Hepatica sp., H. acutiloba or H. americana Liverwort (see Hepatica) single blue. By
sowing seeds some varieties may be
obtained. To be sown in August soon
after they are ripe
Hesperis matronalis Dames Rocket, Sweet Rocket Double Rocket
Hibiscus Coccineus, H. militaris or H.
moscheutos,
American Ketmia, what was sent me by
the name of Holy Oak, 4th sort.
American Ketmia with a Papaw leaf
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