Acer ginnala 'Embers'
Common Name: Embers Amur Maple
A great xeriscape plant, this outstanding Amur Maple was selected by Bailey Nurseries for its bright red fruit and exceptional scarlet fall color. Embers has a rounded crown and medium green foliage. The fragrant, creamy white flowers bloom late spri

Acer saccharum 'Bailsta'
Common Name: Fall Fiesta Maple
Great sugar maple for fall color with far more oranges and reds than other Sugar Maples.. One look is all you'll need to see that Fall Fiesta® is superior to the sort. Branching is full and symmetrical with thick, leathery, glossy, deep green leaves

Achillea filipendulina 'Moonshine'
Common Name: Moonshine Yarrow
Hybrid yarrow with fern-like, silvery green foliage. Stems are topped with broad sulfur-yellow flower heads during the summer. Photos courtesy Bluebird Nursery and High Country Gardens

Achillea hybrid 'Coronation Gold'
Common Name: Coronation Gold Yarrow
Yarrow with gray-green fern-like foliage up to 18 inches. Bright golden flowers are 3-4 inches flat plate-like on 24-36 inch stems in early summer. Photo courtesy High Country Gardens

Achillea millefolium 'Paprika'
Common Name: Paprika Yarrow
Paprika has feathery foliage on 24" stems that are topped with intense ruby-red flower clusters with gold centers fading to light pink and creamy yellow.Photo courtesy of North Creek Nursery.

Achillea X 'Terra Cotta'
Common Name: Terra Cotta Yarrow
Exciting color of yarrow; sturdy stems support dark pink and peach flowers that slowly change to rich hues of earthy reds and oranges. Bloom is in June and July. The silver foliage has a delicate ferny appearance. Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens

Acora calamus 'variegatus'
Common Name: Variegated sweet flag
A spectacular addition to the damp garden. Water/bog plant with vertical, creamy variegation.

Actaea pachypoda
Common Name: Baneberry
Baneberry is a small woodland shrub with airy, open foliage and leaflets that are sharply toothed. It blooms in May with fuzzy, white dome-shaped blooms followed by white berries with dark brown or black "eyes" in August. Additional photo courtes

Adenophora tasheroi
Common Name: Ladybells
Description: Long racemes of nodding, violet-blue bells June-August on well-branched, slender-stemmed, dark green plants. Better heat tolerance than Campanulas. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aesculus parviflora
Common Name: White Bottlebrush Buckeye
White Bottlebrush Buckeye is a broad-mounded, suckering shrub with coarse-textured, dark green leaves that are comprised of 5-7 leaflets that turn a rich butter-yellow in the fall. The bottlebrush-shaped flowers are 10-15" long at the ends of the bra

Aesculus pavia
Common Name: Dwarf Red Buckeye
A native buckeye with attractive dark green leaves, each with five to seven leaflets. The eye-catching red flowers appear in April and May in long panicles that can be up to 6 inches long. Photo by Spring Valley Nursery

Agastache aurantiaca 'Coronado'
Common Name: Coronado Hyssop
Yellow, stained with orange, helmets of fiery color from midsummer to autumn frost. The silvery-green leaves of this southwestern wildflower are intensely aromatic. Plants are upright in habit.

Agastache cana
Common Name: Texas Hummingbird Mint
Adaptable perennial with dark pink fragrant, tubular flowers on spikes up to 18 inches long. The foliage medium green and fragrant when rubbed or crushed. Plants bloom in late July through September. Photo courtesy Bluebird Nursery

Agastache cana 'Sinning'
Common Name: Hummingbird Mint
This selection has large lavender-rose flowers that are much showier than the species. It has a compact habit and long bloom period (usually from late summer to fall). Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nurseries

Agastache foeniculum
Common Name: Anise Hyssop
Extremely showy perennial for a sunny, well drained site. Anise hyssop, so named for the anise scented foliage, displays blue/lavendar in mid to late summer. Grows to 3 feet tall, bushy, with branches from the ground upward. Photo courtesy of Uni

Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee'
Common Name: Anise Hyssop
Great contrast plant for the sunny border. The showy golden-chartreuse to lime green foliage stands out in a sea of green in the garden. The brightness of the foliage depends on the sun exposure. Dense lavender blue flowers are held on strong, uprig

Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'
Common Name: Bugleweed
Large, glossy, dark purple-black, scalloped leaves with spikes of deep blue flowers from early spring-early summer. A striking new contrast plant for the garden or containers. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Allium canadense
Common Name: Wild Garlic
Wild Garlic is upright topped with white or pink flowers that are sometimes replaced by small bulblets giving the flower a twisted, contorted look while in bloom. Photo courtesy of Kansas Biological Survey.

Allium cernuum
Common Name: Pink Nodding Onion
Pink Nodding Onion blooms in July and August and produces umbels of drooping small white flowers that turn pink as they age. Photo by Emily Weaver.Extra image courtesy of North Creek Nursery.

Allium stellatum
Common Name: Prairie Onion
Prairie Onion is very similar to Nodding Pink Onion except the stems are more erect and the flower heads are not drooping or nodding. Pink flowers bloom in August through early October. Photograph courtesy of Kansas Biological Survey.

Amorpha canescens
Common Name: Leadplant
Lead plant is a short shrub that behaves like a perennial herb. Stems are usually branched, hairy except in older plants. Leaves are alternate, oblong, 1-2" long, 1/2-1 1/2" wide, odd-pinnate with 5-20 pairs of oblong leaflets, and sparingly to dense

Amorpha nana
Common Name: Fragrant False Indigo
Dwarf Wild Indigo is a compact erect shrub with green foliage. Leaves are alternate, odd-pinnate up to 1-4 inches long. The fragrant pink flowers appear in May through July. Photos courtesy Bluebird Nursery

Amsonia hubrechtii
Common Name: Narrow Leaf Blue Star
Narrow-leaf Blue Star is a graceful and long lived native plant with very fine foliage, clusters of steel blue flowers in May and June on an upright, bushy plant. In the fall, the entire plant becomes a golden yellow. Photos courtesy Walters Garde

Amsonia illustris
Common Name: Shining Blue Star
Shining Blue Star has thick shiny leaves that are 2-5 inches long and 1/2-1 inch wide. The blue flowers appear in April and May on the terminal growth of the plant. Photos courtesy Spring Valley Nursery and Bluebird Nursery

Amsonia tabernaemontana
Common Name: Dwarf Blue Amsonia
Dwarf Blue Amsonia is a bit shorter in height than the species, reaching only 18-24 inches. The foliage is shaped like the narrow leaf on a willow tree. The flowers are sky-blue in clusters that appear in June and July. It has golden yellow foliage i

Amsonia X 'Blue Ice'
Common Name: Blue Star
Incredible Blue Star! It blooms over a long period in the early spring. This compact Amsonia clusters of dark blue flowers atop a compact mound of dark green leaves. The whole plant turns brilliant yellow in the fall. Photos courtesy of North Cree

Andropogon gerardii 'Pawnee'
Common Name: Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem is a warm season bunch grass with flowering stalks averaging 3-6' tall. Portions of the stout, round stems are bluish or purplish. The leaves are up to 2' long and less than 1/2" wide. Flowers are at the tops of tall stalks, usually in 3

Andropogon gerardii 'Pawnee'
Common Name: Pawnee Big Bluestem
'Pawnee' big bluestem is a robust, columnar bunchgrass to 6 ft. tall, 2ft. or more wide. The blue-green leaves during the growing season turn to stunning orange,red, yellow and maroon shades in the fall after the first frost. Photos by Emily Weave

Anemone canadensis
Common Name: Meadow Anemone
A strong growing plant that needs room to move. Clear white single flowers top out at 18" from mid spring to early summer. The stems have a single whorl of leaves, but without stalks. Each leaf can have narrow segments which are toothed and sometimes

Aquilegia canadensis
Common Name: Canadian Columbine
Spring blooming (May-June) woodland native with an inner yelllow flower surrounded by a delicate spurred red outer flower. Two flowers in one! The blue-green foliage elongates in the spring with reddish stems that are topped by the elegant flowers.

Aquilegia canadensis 'Corbett'
Common Name: Yellow Columbine
Yellow columbine is a dwarf plant to 18 inches with light green lobed foliage. The butter yellow flowers appear in April through June in profusion. Photos courtesy Bluebird Nursery and North Creek Nurseries

Aquilegia canadensis 'Canyon Vista'
Common Name: Dwarf Wild Columbine
This is a shorter more compact form of Aquilegia canadensis. The flowers are a dark red with clean cut foliage and deep red stems. Photo courtesy of North Creek Nurseries

Aquilegia canadensis 'Blue Jay'
Common Name: Blue Jay Columbine
Early blooming and floriferous; compact habit. Available only by variety, not as a mixture. Deep blue sepals, white petals. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aquilegia canadensis 'Crimson Star'
Common Name: Crimson Star Columbine
Masses of crimson and white flowers. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aquilegia canadensis 'Robin'
Common Name: Robin Columbine
Early blooming and floriferous; compact habit. Available only by variety, not as a mixture. Soft pink sepals, white petals; re-bloomer. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aquilegia chrysantha 'Denver Gold'
Common Name: Denver Gold
A stop you in your tracks kind of plant! The huge 3" yellow flowers with extremely long spurs blooms heavily in spring. It has clean foliage and an attractive form.

Aquilegia vulgaris 'Woodside Gold'
Common Name: Variegated Columbine
This columbine has bright golden yellow leaves in the spring. They hold their color through the season and are topped with contrasting blue to rose-colored flowers in late spring. As the season progresses, the leaves soften to a light yellow color. I

Arisaema triphyllum
Common Name: Jack in the Pulpit
Woodland native with unique brown or green flowers. Leaf is palmate and divided into 3 leaflets. A leaflet bract surrounds and forms a hood around the flower. Bloom is in May and June followed by reddish fruit in autumn.

Aronia melanocarpa 'Viking'
Common Name: Black Chokeberry
One of the best aronia culivars with large clusters of flowers in spring. In the fall, attractive grape-like black fruit develop and persist until spring. The glossy dark green leaves turn incredible hues of red and orange through the autumn months.

Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'
Common Name: White Sage
White Sage is a upright plant to 24" with attractive felt-like wide silvery-grey foliage. The foliage is almost white in appearance. The plants spread by runners. Photo courtesy Bluebird Nursery

Asarum canadense
Common Name: Wild ginger
The ultimate woodland groundcover! It's light green heart shaped leaves hug the ground and spread on thick rootsocks. The red cup-shaped flowers are hidden beneath the leaves.

Asclepias incarnata
Common Name: Swamp Milkweed
Upright milky-sapped plants with clusters of bright reddish-pink flowers that stand out in July and August. The leaves are opposite, narrow and taper to pointed tips. The seed pods are paired, narrow like the leaves, up to 4 inches long and taper t

Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet'
Common Name: White Swamp Milkweed
A bright white flowering selection of Swamp Milkweed. White umbels top upright plants. Leaves are narrow and taper to a pointed tip. Seed pods are thin like the leaves and contain numerous red-brown seeds with white tufts of hair attached to the tip.

Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella'
Common Name: Cinderella Swamp Milkweed
A native perennial with vanilla-scented, rose-pink flowers in large, compact clusters from midsummer to early fall. Deadhead the flowers to stimulate another bloom cycle about a month after the first one. Leaves are light green and produce a white-mi

Asclepias speciosa
Common Name: Showy Milkweed
Showy milkweed is a stout, erect, perennial herb with stems that are densely hairy and mostly unbranched and contain copious sap. Leaves are opposite, simple, fleshy, hairy, 3-8 inches long, and 1-5 inches wide, and broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped

Asclepias syriaca
Common Name: Common Milkweed
This common milkweed has large oval leaves with a pinkish veins on stems that are mostly unbranched and contain a milky sap. The pink flowers are in round clusters at the tops of the stems and appear during the late spring through early summer. When

Asclepias tuberosa
Common Name: Butterfly Milkweed
Stout plants with a few to many stems arising from a woody rootstock. The stems and leaves are covered with hairs and the stems are usually unbranched. Umbels of orange flowers appear in the hottest part of the summer (June-August). Seed pods are 3-6

Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies'
Common Name: Gay Butterflies Milkweed
Brilliant red, orange, and yellow fragrant flowers. Stout stems often sprawl and appear bushy. The leaves are dark green and hairy usually about 3-4 inches long resembling a short dagger. Attractive seed pods are narrow and open to reveal the redd

Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Butterfly Milkweed
Yellow Butterfly Milkweed has showy bright yellow flowers from June through August. It reaches 24 inches in height with equal or greater spread. The dark green foliage is attractive throughout the growing season.

Asclepias viridis
Common Name: Spider Milkweed
Large, somewhat sprawling plants up to 24 inches with thick stems, milky sap The leaves are stalky and wavy. Flowers occur in late spring through the summer with most clusters near the tops of the stems with less than 35 flowers per cluster. The seed

Asimina triloba
Common Name: Pawpaw
Pawpaw has droopy, 6 to 12 inch long leaves that are alternate, simple and smooth along the margins. Purple flowers appear out of the brownish buds in April and May and are quite unusual. The fruit are edible, waxy, irregular-shaped berries from 2-5

Aster cordifolius 'Avondale'
Common Name: Blue Wood Aster
This selection is a prolific bloomer for the woodland garden. The tiny light blue flowers cover the plants in early fall. Brightens a shade garden when little else is blooming. Foliage is dark green and heart shaped.

Aster divaricatus 'Eastern Star'
Common Name: White Woodland Aster
A real standout in the woodland garden! This fall blooming aster is beautiful throughout the year. In spring, the evergreen foliage grows to 8-12 inches tall. It spreads slowly by underground rhizomes but is not aggressive. The plant is transformed i

Aster dumosus 'Wood's Light Blue'
Common Name: Bushy Aster
Looks just like a gorgeous mum in the fall. The densely packed clusters of light blue, semi-double flowers provide outstanding color late in the season. It has a dwarf, compact habit that will not require staking. The foliage shows excellent resista

Aster dumosus 'Wood's Purple'
Common Name: Wood's Purple Bushy Aster
Looks just like a gorgeous mum in the fall. The densely packed clusters of charming purple, semi-double flowers provide outstanding color late in the season. It has a dwarf, compact habit that will not require staking. The foliage shows excellent re

Aster dumosus 'Wood's Pink'
Common Name: Bushy Aster
Looks just like a gorgeous mum in the fall. The densely packed clusters of light pink, semi-double flowers provide outstanding color late in the season. It has a dwarf, compact habit that will not require staking. The foliage shows excellent resista

Aster ericoides
Common Name: Heath Aster
An explosion of tiny white flowers in the fall (August-October). This is bushy colonial aster that usually spreasds by rhizomes or woody rootstock. The branches have numerous flowers heads along the upper lengths and drop their lower leaves to expos

Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry'
Common Name: Heath Aster
Snow Flurry gives a totally new look and use for Asters. The habit is a very low dense carpeting groundcover. In September, the 1/2 inch flowers with gold centers smother the plant. Photo courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

Aster fendleri
Common Name: Fendler's Aster
Fendler's Aster grows from a gnarled, woody caudex. The stems are erect to ascending and hairy. Leaves are firm, linear with straight bases and hiry margins. The blue, purple, or white ray petals surround a yellow central disk. Photo courtesy Blue

Aster fendleri 'My Antonia'
Common Name: My Antonia Fendler's Aster
Pure white flowers with yellow centers from summer through fall on 12 inch plants. Foliage is glossy dark green.

Aster laevis 'Bluebird'
Common Name: Smooth Blue Aster
Smooth aster has glabrous (smooth) blue-green foliage. The 1 inch single flowers are violet-blue with yellow centers and are borne on large cone-shaped clusters in the late-summer through fall.Extra image courtesy of North Creek Nursery.

Aster laevis
Common Name: Smooth Aster
Smooth aster has attractive smooth blue-green foliage and the blue flowers appear in profusion late in the season. It grows 2 to 4 feet. Photo courtesy Bluebird Nursery

Aster laevis 'Bluebird'
Common Name: Bluebird Smooth Blue Aster
Large cone shaped clusters of single violet-blue 1 inch flowers with gold centers. Has unique smooth blue-green foliage on plants that reach 4 feet of height.Photo courtesy of North Creek Nursery.

Aster lateriflorus ''Lady in Black''
Common Name: Calico Aster
Deep burgundy foliage foliage is a great contrast to the thousands of tiny white daisies with round raspberry centers borne in the fall along the leaf axils.

Aster novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'
Common Name: Purple Dome Aster
Naturally compact (18 inches tall) with royal purple flowers in August-October. The dark green foliage is mildew resistant. Photos courtesy Bluebird Nursery and High Country Gardens

Aster novae-angliae 'Hella Lacy'
Common Name: Hella Lacy Aster
Hella Lacy is an upright form of New England Aster with deep violet-purple daisy-like flowers in late summer through fall. The leaves are lance-shaped and dark green. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aster novae-angliae 'Red Star'
Common Name: Red Star Aster
Showy aster grow to 18" tall with hairy stems and leaves. The stems have alternate leaves and are topped with red flowers in late summer and fall.Photo by Kathy Kendrick.

Aster novi-belgii 'Alert'
Common Name: Pink New York Aster
A real standout in the garden. The densely packed clusters of deep purplish-red flowers provide outstanding color in the garden from late summer into fall. 'Alert' has an especially compact habit reaching only 15 inches tall. Photo courtesy of Wa

Aster novi-belgii 'Snowball'
Common Name: Snowball Aster
Dwarf globe covered with white flowers in fall. Photo courtesy of Bluebird Nursery.

Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies'
Common Name: October Skies Aster
A strong growing low mound of bushy bright green foliage. The 1 inch sky blue flowers appear in September through October and continue even after a light frost. Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens, Inc.

Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite'
Common Name: Aromatic Aster
This aromatic aster has medium blue, fine textured single ray flowers that appear in September and October. Aromatic foliage is clean and fragrant when bruised. Photo courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

Aster ptarmicoides
Common Name: Upland White Aster
Upland White Aster is a slender plant that is covered with white flowers in Ausust and September. Each flowering head is about 3/4 inch wide, with up to 25 white, petal-like ray flowers surrounding a white to pale yellow disk. The narrow leaves are a

Aster sericeus
Common Name: Silk Aster
Silky Aster has a wide branching habit with alternate leaves up to 1 3/4 inch long and 1/2 inch wide. The leaves are densely covered with fine silky hairs that lie flat on the leaf surface, giving them a distinctive silvery green color and slippery t

Aster turbinellus
Common Name: Prairie Aster
Masses of violet-blue flowers in September through October on attractive 4' well-branched plants. Photo courtesy of Kansas Biological Survey.

Asteromoea mongolica
Common Name: Kalimeris
This is a new plant to the arboretum that has shown great promise. The semi-double white daisies that fade to light pink begin in September and continue for twelve or more weeks. The flowers and foliage give the palnts a soft airy appearance. Outstan

Athyrium filix-femina
Common Name: Lady Fern
Large, vigorous, showy fern with lacy cut, lance-shaped leaves to 30".

Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'
Common Name: Japanese Painted Fern
Iridescent silvered fronds variegated with purple, gray, and green with showy red stems. Photo courtesy Bluebird Nursery

Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace'
Common Name: Burgundy Lace Fern
Incredible foliage plant for the shade garden. Dark burgundy fronds with silvery stripes along the leaf veins and midribs. The contrasting leaves look lovely throughout the year.