5. Plants You May See at the B. W. Wells Savannah

Flowering Periods for Common Plant Species of the B. W. Wells Savannah
Compiled by Richard LeBlond, North Carolina Natural Heritage Program

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Herbs

• Aletris farinosa - colic root - May
• Asclepias longifolia - longleaf milkweed - May-June
• Calopogon pallida - pale pinkgrass orchid - May-June
• Coreopsis falcata - pool coreopsis - June
• Drosera capillaris - pink sundew - June-July
• Drosera intermedia - spoon-leaf sundew - July-August
• Eriocaulon decangulare - ten-angle pipewort - June-October
• Lachnanthes caroliniana - Carolina redroot - July-October
• Lachnocaulon anceps - white head bog button - May-October
• Lycopodiella alopecuroides - fox tail clubmoss - all year
• Lysimachia loomisii - Loomis’s loosestrife - May-June
• Polygala lutea - red-hot poker - April-October
• Polygala ramosa - yellow gay-wings - June-September
• Rhexia lutea - golden meadow-beauty - April-June
• Rhexia alifanus - grand meadow-beauty - June
• Sabatia difformis, lance-leaf gentian - June-August
• Sarracenia flava - yellow pitcher plant - March-April
• Sarracenia purpurea - purple pitcher plant - April-May
• Scutellaria integrifolia - hyssop skullcap - May-July
• Zigadenus densus - black snakeroot/death camus/crow poison - April-May

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Woody plants (all year)

• Ilex glabra - inkberry
• Lyonia ligustrina - maleberry
• Magnolia virginiana - sweetbay (flowering May-June)
• Pinus serotina
• Vaccinium species - blueberries

Grasses & sedges

• Arundinaria tecta - giant cane - April-October
• Ctenium aromaticum - toothache grass - June-October
• Dichanthelium species - witch grass - May-October
• Andropogon species - bluestem grass - May-October
• Andropogon mohrii - Mohr’s bluestem grass - July-October