Welcome to Awesome Native Plants
Corydalis sempervirens - Pink corydalis
Blooming soon - mainly northern Jersey
These delicate pink flowers finds its home in rocky areas and summits. Its a biennial and so it must successfully reseed to survive. The flower has an unique shape. It is related to dutchman's breeches with inner and outer petals but with only one spur.
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Also See our Spring Plant photos & profiles
Wild Calla - Calla palustris
Blooming soon - mainly northern Jersey
These striking flowers of wild calla are S3 (Vulnerable) in NJ. Wild calla is part of the Arum family of plants with the unusual flowers of spathes and spadices. Like skunk cabbage they are both bog plants but populations of wild calla are more restricted in distribution to the north east and north central USA. Read more: Wild Calla
RARE in the WILD - WILD in CULTIVATION
Phacelia bipinnatifida - Purple Phacelia
Blooming Soon
Purple phacelia's is S1 (Critically Imperiled) in New Jersey but G5(Globally secure) This plant grows well in the garden. It is a biennial but we have found it reseeds itself very well. We once tried to do some restoration for its mostlikly one remaining population but failed to get much support. It probably does not get much attention since it is G5. In other words, look elsewhere for many of our natives. Click here to learn more.
Blooming Now
Greek valerian/Jacob's Ladder
Polemonium reptans var. reptans
These delightful pale blue flowers are blooming in our garden and their delicate leaves will persist through the summer. Polemonium reptans var reptans is S1 (Critically Imperiled) in NJ. However it grows well in the garden. It provides plenty of nectar to its pollinators with a large nectary ring at the base of the ovary. Read more: Greek valerian/Jacob's Ladder
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Also See our Spring Plant photos & profiles
About AWESOME NATIVE PLANTS
This is the website of Millie & Hubert Ling. This site was created in September 2021 and is is dedicated to Native Plants mainly of New Jersey with a focus on the Plant Profiles & Photos pages. The goal here is to continue these. Also we will be adding trip reports of our many hikes in NJ. Hubert is a regular writer for the Gardener News and we will be republishing some of his articles. Continued in 'About Us': Click Here
WHY all the FUSS about NATIVE PLANTS?
What are they and why they are important?. Get the definitions and why they are important and how to find out if a plant is native or not. Also, NEW, added information on rarity in NJ. Click Here
in our 'Resources" section.
Looking around in NATURE: HIKES
Start planning where to hike for next year. NEW: Added: a list of conservation organizations that have preseves which are great places to see native plants. Click Here
BEAUTY and BEYOND
Get to know your native plants. Visit our Plant Profiles & Photos section for photos of not only the beautiful flowers but also their parts and what makes them work.
'GARDENERS NEWS' reprints
Hubert Ling as NPSNJ horticulture has been writing articles for 'Gardener News' since 2015. Some of his articles are being reprinted here. See them at Resources .
Redbud
Cercis canadensis
- Spring -
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
(Anglican hymn)
Study and photography unfolds a whole new dimension of intricacies and interdependencies that commands deference and awe.
"The Lord God made them all"