S.album is a creeping plant 2 to 6 inches tall with 1/2 inch leaves, medium ,light green occasionally with a red tinge. It has white to pink flowers in the summer. Spreads from root fragments, so may not be the […]
Sedum acre ( Golden Moss )
Sedum acre or Golden Carpet Sedum is a very rapidly creeping species forming a mat, too quickly for some rock gardens. The leaves are triangular in cross section, the yellow flowers bloom in early to mid summer. Minor has a […]
Sedum ( Ruby Glow Sedum )
Ruby Glow is a spreading, low-growing, unbranched, deciduous perennial. Stems are red and leaves purplish-green, toothed, elliptic, to 2 inches long. Bright fuschia-pink flowers are star shaped, 1/2 inch wide, held in rounded cymes, to 2 1/2 inches wide, and […]
Sedum ( Autumn Joy Orpine )
Autumn Joy has bright salmon pink flowers that change to a deep russet. S. telephium can grow up to 2 feet high. It resembles S. spectabile but the leaves are more narrow. It is showy over a long season and […]
Seaforthia elegans ( Solitaire Palm )
Manageable sized palm with a slim, columnar trunk ringed with old leaf scars. Leaves are borne on short stalks and are 3 to 8 feet long. They are made up of linear, green leaflets with notched tips. Panicles of fragrant, […]
Scutellaria indica ( Helmut Flower )
Rhizomatous perennial that is slim and upright in habit. Oval leaves have white hairs, are toothed, and medium green. Tubular racemes of flowers are grayish blue, sometimes white, and bloom in summer.
Scutellaria alpina ( Alpine Skullcap )
Perennial that is spreading and tuft-forming with oval, toothed, hairy, grayish green leaves. Racemes of straight purple flowers with yellowish white lips bloom in summer.
Scrophularia auriculata ( Variegated Water Figwort )
Perennial that can be aquatic. Stems are square and straight and produce cream variegated, lance-shaped, wrinkled, toothed leaves. Panicle-like, yellowish green flowers are borne in cymes from early summer to early fall. Fragrance emitted may be malodorous.
Scopolia carniolica ( Scopolia )
Rhizomatous perennial with a creeping habit. Leaves are oval to oblong, pointed, veined, and wrinkled. Bell-shaped, brownish purple to red flowers that are yellowish green inside bloom mid- and late spring.
Scoliopus biglowii ( Stink Pod )
Perennial that is compact and herbaceous. Leaves are broad and oval, boldly veined, and dark green with purple splotches. Umbels of flowers that look like trilliums are upright, and have dark purple inner tepals and greenish white outer tepals with […]