Factsheets - Shade Gardens
Plants that will thrive with little direct sunlight
Trees
Pawpaw Asimina triloba
American Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana
Alternate Leaf Dogwood Cornus alternifolia
Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
American Beech Fagus grandifolia
American Holly Ilex opaca
Blackgum Nyssa sylvatica
White Oak Quercus alba
Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra
Shrubs
Common Serviceberry Amelanchier arborea
Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia
Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum
Strawberry Bush Euonymus americanus
Teaberry Gaultheria procumbens
Witch Hazel Hamamelis virginiana
Wild Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens
Inkberry Holly Ilex glabra
Virginia Sweetspire Itea virginica
Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia
Spicebush Lindera benzoin
Partridgeberry Mitchella repens
Catawba Rhododendron Rhododendron catawbiense
Great Rhododendron Rhododendron maximum
Pinxter Azalea Rhododendron periclymenoides
Mapleleaf Viburnum Viburnum acerifolium
Blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium
Herbaceous
Black Cohosh Actaea racemosa
Wild Leek Allium triccocum
Wild Columbie Aquilegia canadensis
American Spikenard Aralia racemosa
Jack in the Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
Goatsbeard Aruncus dioicus
Wild Ginger Asarum canadense
Cutleaf Toothwort Cardamine concatenata
Blue Cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides
Green and Gold Chrysogonum virginianum
Virginia Springbeauty Claytonia virginica
Wood Lily Clintonia umbellulata
Pink Lady's Slipper Cypripedium acaule
Dwarf Larkspur Delphinium tricorne
Squirrel Corn Dicentra canadensis
Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria
Wild Bleeding Heart Dicentra eximia
Rough Horsetail Equisetum hyemale
Yellow Trout Lily Erythronium americanum
White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricata
Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
Round-Lobed Hepatica Hepatica americana
American Alumroot Heuchera americana
Hairy Alumroot Heuchera villosa
Azure Bluets Houstonia caerulea
Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata
Twinleaf Jeffersonia diphylla
Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
False Solomon's Seal Maianthemum racemosum
Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica
Violet Woodsorrel Oxalis violaceae
Golden Ragwort Packera aurea
Woodland Phlox Phlox divaricata
Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum
Jacob's Ladder Polemonium reptans
Smooth Solomon's Seal Polygonatum biflorum
Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
Woodland Stonecrop Sedum ternatum
Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod Solidago caesia
Wood Poppy Stylophorum diphyllum
Blue Wood Aster Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Heartleaf Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia
Virginia Spiderwort Tradescantia virginiana
Red Trillium Trillium erectum
Great White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum
Toadshade Trillium sessile
Large Flowered Bellwort Uvularia grandiflora
Canada Violet Viola canadensis
Common Blue Violet Viola sororia
Golden Alexander Zizia aurea
Ferns
Northern Maidenhair Fern Adiantum pedatum
Hay Scented Fern Dennstaedtia punctilobula
Marginal Shield Fern Dryopteris marginalis
Ostrich Fern Matteuccia struthiopteris
Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis
Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cinnamomea
Royal Fern Osmunda regalis vs. spectabilis
Rock Polypody Polypodium virginianum
Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides
New York Fern Thelypteris noveboracensis
Grass and Grasslike
Blue Wood Sedge Carex glaucodea
Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica
Woodland Oats Chasmanthium latifolium
Vines
Pipevine Aristolochia macrophylla
Crossvine Bignonia capreolata
Virgin's Bower Clematis virginiana
COMING SOON Roundleaf Greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia
