Early Summer
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Type
Genus
Common Name
Light Requirement
Flower Color
Height
Uses
Resistance
Echinacea – Prima Tiger Coneflower
Roars into bloom all summer.
Iodanthus pinnatifidus – Purple Rocket
A Missouri and Illinois native that brings color to shady spots.
Iris cristata – Crested Iris
A delightful Missouri native Iris for shade.
Iris virginica shrevei – Southern Blue Flag
Missouri and Illinois native Iris for wet spots.
Itea – Fizzy Mizzy Sweetspire
Fun small shrub with sweetly scented white flower spikes.
Itea – Henry’s Garnet Sweetspire
Beautiful scented flowers on a rugged, adaptable shrub.
Itea – Scentlandia Sweetspire
Sweetly scented flowers bloom on an easy-going shrub that grows almost anywhere.
Itea – Short N’ Sweet Sweetspire
Fragrant flowers that will grow just about anywhere.
Itea virginica, Virginia Sweetspire
This small Missouri and Illinois native shrubs grows anywhere, sun, shade, wet, dry.
Kniphofia – Jackpot Red Hot Poker
A sure bet for stunning blossoms.
Kniphofia – Orange Blaze Red Hot Poker
An explosion of dramatic orange blossoms all summer.
Kniphofia – Rocket’s Red Glare Red Hot Poker
As dramatic as the song with huge hot colored blossoms.
Magnolia Bracken’s Brown Beauty Southern Magnolia
Gorgeous tree with glossy evergreen foliage and showy flowers.
Magnolia virginiana – Glauca Sweet Bay Magnolia
Grows a little smaller than the species Magnolia virginiana.