Plant list

All the plants are shade-tolerant, because of the shady location.  Almost all are native to the area, so they like our climate, compete with weeds, and require less maintenance.

Listed in rough order of bloom time:

Bloodroot.   White flower. Blooms about April 12.

Siberian Squill. Scilla siberica  Blue, nodding flower.  (Pretty but non-native and aggressive.)

Spring beauty.  Very small plant, white flower.

Woodland phlox.  Blue flower

Daffodil.  (1 plant!)  I assume it came in as a seed, but someone may have planted it. (Non-native)

Wild geranium.  Pink flower

Wild ginger.  Inconspicuous brown flower

Wood poppy. or Celandine poppy  Stylophorum diphyllum.  Yellow flower.

Trout lily.  Mottled leaf, yellow nodding flower.

Jacob's ladder.  Small blue flower.

Virginia waterleaf. Hydrophyllum virginianum.  White flowers.

Large-leafed Trillium. Trillium grandiflorum  Large white flower w/ 3 petals.  Grows in clumps.

Prairie trillium.  Trillium recurvatum  Deep purple flower w/ 3 petals, 3 mottled leaves.

Virginia bluebell.  Blue flowers, with large droopy leaves.

Sweet woodruff.  Small white flowers.  (Non-native)

Shooting star.  White flower on longer stalk.

May apple. Podophyllum.  White flower hidden under 1-2 large leaves. Blooms May.

Pulmonaria.  Blue & pink small flowers  Blooms early. (Non-native)

Lamium.  Blue and pink flowers with variegated leaves.  (Non-native and aggressive, but pretty).

Siberian bugloss. (false forget-me-not) Brunnera macrophylla  Small, blue flowers (non-native)

False solomon seal.  Small, dangling white flowers.

Golden alexander.  Tall with yellow flowers.  Some mistake it for the undesirable wild parsnip.

Columbine.  1 plant)  Medium tall with red flowers.

Canadian anemone. Anemonastrum canadense. Medium tall with white flowers. 

Common fleabane and/or daisy fleabane.  Medium tall, white flowers. Blooms late spring all summer.

Zig-zag goldenrod.  Yellow flower, blooms summer

Big-leafed aster.  White, blooms summer

Joe Pye weed.  Tall, purple flowers, blooms summer

New England aster  Multitude of purple with yellow center flowers, loved by pollinators, late summer.

Black cohosh (snakeroot)  Tall spray of white flowers, blooms mid-to-late summer

Sedges  These plants in the genus Carex look like clumps of grass, but they stay the same size (once grown) and don't form rank, tall and messy clumps like grass does when it goes uncut.  Some, like Pennsylvania sedge, are very shade tolerant--that's why we plant them. Their flowers are inconspicuous but many produce attractive seed clumps.

Small: Pennsylvania sedge  April 15.  Looks like small clump of grass.

Medium: Fox sedge.  Looks like a medium clump of grass.

                We have several species of medium-sized sedges.
Large:  Fringed sedge Carex crinita.  Yellowish green leaves in large clumps.

Weeds aren't a big problem in this garden because it's so shady.

Dandelion

Creeping Charlie

Carrot-like plant (wild parsnip?)

Grass

Woody plants (tree saplings)