The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

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  1. Clay busters


The following list includes wildflowers and native grasses recommended
for clay soils. Reprinted with permission of Neil Diboll, Prairie Nursery,
Westfield, Wisconsin.

Andropogon gerardii
Asclepias syriaca
Desmodium canadense
Echinacea pallida
Echinacea purpurea
Elymus canadensis
Eryngium yuccifolium
Helianthus ×laetiflorus
Heliopsis helianthoides

Liatris pycnostachya
Liatris spicata
Monarda fistulosa
Panicum virgatum
Parthenium integrifolium
Ratibida pinnata
Rudbeckia hirta
Silphium integrifolium
Silphium laciniatum

Silphium perfoliatum
Silphium
terebinthinaceum
Solidago rigida
Sorghastrum
nutans
Spartina pectinata
Symphyotrichum
novae-angliae
Vernonia fasciculata

Liatris spicata
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