Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society
Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society
Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society
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Custis and Collinson<br />
Virgina<br />
1734-1746<br />
Iris verna or versicolor 1735 "Indian iris"<br />
?Kalmia angustifolia sheep laurel 1735 "laurells,"[?]<br />
Kalmia latifolia or K. angustifolia mountain laurel or sheep<br />
laurel<br />
1735 "ivy"<br />
Lagenaria siceraria "pretty little gourd" 1741 "Little pear or snuffbox Gourd,"<br />
Liquidambar styraciflua 1738 "sweet Gum"<br />
Liriodendron tulipifera 1738 "Flowering poplar or Tulip Tree,"<br />
"poplar"<br />
?Magnolia grandiflora southern magnolia 1735 "laurells”<br />
Magnolia tripetala Umbrella Magnolia 1737 "Umbrella," "umbrella tree"<br />
Magnolia virginiana sweet bay magnolia 1736/7 "sweet White Flowering swamp Bay,"<br />
"swamp flowering Bay smaller sort[of<br />
magnolia that] grows with You in the<br />
Swamps," "sweet flowering bay"[?]<br />
Mertensia virginica Virginia blue-bells 1734 "mountain cowslip"<br />
Morus alba 1736 "white Mulberry"<br />
Myrica cerifera wax myrtle 1741 "candle myrtill berrys"<br />
Oenothera biennis Virginia evening Primrose 1737/8 "anagra,” "Virginia Tree primerose”<br />
Oxydendron arboreum sourwood 1736 “sorrellTree”<br />
Panicum maximum or Sorghum<br />
bicolor<br />
1742/3 "Guinea Corn"<br />
Passiflora incarnata and/or P.<br />
1737/8 "Passion flower 2 sorts," "Virginia<br />
lutea<br />
passion flower"<br />
Physalis sp. 1739/40 "Ground Cherry"<br />
Polygala senega Seneca snakeroot 1736/7 "Rattle Snake Root"<br />
Prunus americana or P. angustifolia American or Chickasaw<br />
plum<br />
1742/3 "your Wild Scarlet plum"<br />
Prunus Persica 1738/9 "peaches"<br />
Prunus serotina 1739 "wild cherry"<br />
Quercus phellos 1736/7 "narrow or Willow Leafed Okes"<br />
Quercus virginiana 1736/7 "live oak acorns"<br />
Rhus typhina staghorn sumach 1738 "sumach that produced Tufts of a Very<br />
Bright scarlet," "Shomake"<br />
Sanguinaria canadensis bloodroot 1735 "pocoone,” "pecoone”<br />
Sassafras albidum 1737/8 "Sarsifrax,” "sassafras"<br />
Taxodium distichum bald cypress 1736/7 "swamp Cypress Cones or Balls"<br />
Viburnum prunifolium "Black Haws" 1737/8<br />
Yucca filamentosa 1735 "silk Grass”<br />
Zanthoxylum americanum 1736 "Toothache Tree"<br />
Zea mays 1741 "Rair Ripe or Early Ripe Indian Corn"<br />
UNIDENTIFIED:<br />
"laurells" [1735] possibilities: Magnolia grandiflora,<br />
Kalmia, Prunus caroliniana<br />
"pearl tree” [1735]<br />
"pellitory" [1742/3] Ptelea trifoliata?<br />
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