Welcome to Awesome Native Plants
It's Summer - Time for Lilies
Wood Lily - Lilium philadelphicum var. philadelphicum -
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Also see our other lilies Summer Plant photos & profiles
Bluets - Houstonia caerulea
Blooming Now
Welcome these delicate pale blue flowers with yellow centers into your garden. They are small but they bloom prolifically making cheerfully striking patches. If you look carefully, you will see that they have 2 types of flowers. Also normally they have 4 petals but each year we find a flower with 5 petals. This year we decided to look more carefully at it.
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Corydalis sempervirens - Pink corydalis
Blooming season - 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 season - 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
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"