The Pennsylvania landscape painting is home to more than 2,000 aboriginal plant life coinage . The travail to preserve Pennsylvania ’s plant life will have long - term effects in prevent devastating and irreversible bionomic modification . When planting in Pennsylvania , choose native varieties . They thrive well in their natural dirt consideration , require less maintenance than many non - native species and most of all they add raw beauty to their landscape painting .
Blue Cohosh
Also known as squaw - root and papoose - root word , down in the mouth herb Christopher ( Caulophyllum thalictroides ) is a perennial native to Pennsylvania and to the eastern half of North America . The works belongs to the Berberidaceae family , grow to 3 foot tall and grow yellow or fleeceable flower in midsummer and true - blue berry clusters from spring to summer . Native to forest and woody areas , blue cohosh does well in shaded areas and in moist soil .
Woodland Flax
A perennial herbaceous plant aboriginal to Pennsylvania and easterly North America , woodland flax ( Linum virginianum ) go to the Linaceae family . Also known as wild flax and slender chickenhearted flax , it produce lily-livered blossoms from June through August . Woodland flax thrives in forest areas and in dry to moderately damp soil .
Wild Lupine
belong to the Fabaceae family — the dome family — wild lupin ( Lupinus perennis ) is a repeated herb native to the woodlands and prairies of Pennsylvania , easterly North America and Texas . Also lie with as sundial lupine , the plant life grow up to 2 feet in peak and get seed pod . Wild lupin produce numerous downcast , pink or whitened blossoms arrange around the racemes forming an elongate flowering clump atop the bow . Its flowers bloom between spring and summer , and the plant flourish in full sun or partial shade and juiceless to moist soil .
Oak Fern
A perennial herb of the Dryopteridaceae family , oak tree fern ( Gymnocarpium dryopteris ) is a native plant of Pennsylvania and the northern one-half of the United States and Canada , and it also grows in Utah , Colorado , New Mexico and Arizona . Oak fern is also named western oak tree fern and common oak fern . Oak fern is a low - grow fern that grow less than 15 inches tall . It thrives in moist forest weather condition and is tincture - resistant .
Turtlehead
A member of the Scrophulariaceae family , turtlehead ( genus Chelone glabra ) is recurrent blossom herb native to Pennsylvania and eastern North America . The industrial plant grows up to 3 human foot in top and develop white or yellow - tinted florescence lobe clusters that resemble the head of a polo-neck . Turtlehead ’s flowers are in bloom from mid- to tardy summertime . Also know as white snakehead , the plant thrives in sloshed soil conditions , in the partial shade of woodland and woodlands .
