Plant Database
Welcome to Bowood Farms Plant Database. You can search by either Botanical Name or Common Name, or if a more general search is needed, please use the Plant Search. We are in the process of building our Plant Database therefore this is not a complete list of our inventory, if you don't see a specific plant please call or use our Community Bulletin Board in the Gardener's Corner to inquire about availability. Plants are for sale at our St. Louis location only, based on availability. As you browse the Plant Database, use the My Garden Planner to create a printable list of plants that interest you. Please bring your Garden Planner into Bowood Farms and we will assist you with your plant selections.
Please Note: We do not ship or accept orders over the internet.
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Abelmoschus esculentus 'Carmine Splendor'Common Name: Okra
Stout pods are deep red when small fading to a lighter red/pink when larger with 5 points. Mid- to late-summer harvest season. Fast maturing, stalky, upright plants. ...[ More Info ]
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Abutilon pictum 'Thompsonii'Common Name: Yearround Flowering Maple
Abutilon pictum 'Thompsonii' is a lovely Flowering Maple that blooms steadily throughout the year, provided it receives lots of sun and plenty of moisture. Plants grow upright to two feet or more, and their deep green leaves are sp... [ More Info ]
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Acanthus 'Whitewater'Common Name: Variegated Acanthus
This vigorous, variegated Acanthus has striking, bold leaves with white margins and splashing. Makes a large clump with 4-5' tall ornamental flower stalks of pink and cream in summer.
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Acanthus spinosusCommon Name: Spiny Bears Breeches
Foxglove-like purple/white flowers, bold deeply divided dark green spiny-tipped leaves, the spines look worse than they feel! Hardy and dramatic!...
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Achillea 'Moonshine'Common Name: Yarrow
Flat-topped clusters of sulphur-yellow flowers with fern-like aromatic foliage ranging from green to gray that stays nice throughout the season. If kept cut back after blooming, they will continue to flower all summer and into fall and keep a tidy ap...
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Acorus gramineus 'Minimus-Aureus'Common Name: Acorus
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Acorus gramineus 'Pusillus'Common Name: Dwarf Sweet Flag
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Actaea 'Chocoholic'Common Name: Black Snakeroot
Fragrant bottlebrush flowers dance above the deep purple foliage. They are a rich mauve-pink color when they open and lighten to white as they age. ...[ More Info ]
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Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue'Common Name: Baneberry-White
Multi-stemmed clump of soft blue-green foliage and is similar to Cimicifuga in habit. It is a dependable, low maintenance, long-lived perennial once established.
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Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic'Common Name: Kiwi Male/Female
A Beautiful vine grown for its colorful variegated foliage. The heart shaped leaves will exhibit shades of green, creamy white, and bright pink. It produces fragrant small blossoms but does not produce fruit. It will reach 15 to 25... [ More Info ]
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Adiantum pedatumCommon Name: Maidenhair Fern
Finely textured smooth green fronds above wiry dark brown/black stems....
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Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'Common Name: Bishops or Goutweed
Green leaves with white margins. White flowers, that are not very showy....
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Aeschynanthus radicansCommon Name: Lipstick Plant
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Aesculus parvifloraCommon Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye
White cylindrical panicles 8-12" long. Medium-dark green palmate leaves, yellow-green fall color....
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Agastache 'Heatwave'Common Name: Bubble Gum Mint/Hummingbird Mint
Eye-catching flower spikes of lavender-pink contrast handsomely with its blue-green foliage. Mass toward the rear of perennial borders for striking affect. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies with its spicy fragrant licorice-scen... [ More Info ]
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Agastache 'Bolero'Common Name: Hyssop
Darker bronze foliage and vivid rose purple flowers with purple calyxes set this new variety apart. From midsummer into fall, plants are topped by a plethora of brightly colored flower spikes which add a bright spot of color to the landscape. Xeri... [ More Info ]
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Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee'Common Name: Hyssop-Anise
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Ajania pacifica 'Gold and Silver'Common Name: Gold and Silver Chrysanthemum
Superb, white-edged foliage with small, yellow flowers in late fall. ...[ More Info ]
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Ajuga 'Burgundy Glow'Common Name: Bugleweed
Blue flowers. This Ajuga features tricolored foliage: white, pink and green....
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Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip'Common Name: Bugleweed
This petite form of Ajuga has small, narrow, rich chocolate brown and green leaves. This plant forms a tight mat that weeds can not penetrate making it a very valuable groundcover. Flowers are a nice shade of blue-violet....
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Ajuga 'Sparkler'Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ajuga
'Sparkler' has thick, dark green, shiny foliage covered in creamy-white splashes that light up the floor of a garden like nothing else. Come winter, the variegated foliage takes on amazing pink tones. Warm weather with new growth brings out even more...
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Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'Common Name: Bugleweed
Little blue flowers, lightly glossed chocolate hues narrow leafed foliage....
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Ajuga reptans 'Silver Beauty'Common Name: Bugleweed
This lovely variegated ajuga has grey-green leaves with an irregular creamy-white edge. From mid to late spring, short spikes of blue flowers stand upright above the low, spreading foliage. The effect is stunning when planted en ma... [ More Info ]
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Alcea 'Polarstar'Common Name: Hollyhock
Single, white flowers with a yellow eye are produced on tall, sturdy stalks in midsummer. ...[ More Info ]
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Alcea rosea 'Sunshine'Common Name: Hollyhock
Bright yellow, single flowers are produced on tall, sturdy stalks in midsummer. ...[ More Info ]
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Alchemilla erythropodaCommon Name: Dwarf Lady's Mantle
A plant right out of the English perennial garden. Produces smaller leaves in blue-green color with a silver edge, then other species. Blooms in the spring with sprays of chartruese flowers. The silken leaves will sparkle when drops of rain or dew co...
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Alchemilla mollisCommon Name: Lady's Mantle
Green yellow sprays of flowers. Light green downy shallow-lobed rounded leaves, raindrops are 'captured' on leaves like glistening beads....
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Alchemilla mollis 'Auslese'Common Name: Lady's Mantle
Green to bright chartreuse flowers appear in clusters above scalloped, grey-green foliage; robust and vigorous. ...[ More Info ]
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Allium fistulosum 'Deep Purple'Common Name: Bunching Onion
The first red buncher that is highly colored at any temperature or age. ...[ More Info ]
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Allium schoenoprasumCommon Name: Chives
Edible flowers of small pale purple, form a dense globular umbel at top of stem in summer. Leaves are slender dark green, sweet mild onion flavor....
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Allium senescens 'Glaucum'Common Name: Ornamental Onion
Lilac or mauve flowers in tight umbels and linear, flat, slightly twisted foliage is grayish-green. Leaves smell like onions if bruised....
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Allium tuberosumCommon Name: Garlic Chives
Features chive-like, gray-green leaves up to 12" long which may be used in cooking in the same manner as chives (Allium schoenoprasum). Tiny, star-shaped, white flowers with brown striped tepals appear in loose clusters. All ... [ More Info ]
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Aloysia triphyllaCommon Name: Lemon Verbena
Small white flowers in late summer/fall. Leaves have a strong lemon scent, bright green....
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Alsobia dianthafloraCommon Name: Alsobia dianthaflora
Large deeply fringed white flowers. Small dark green downy leaves arranged in tiny rosettes. Stoloniferous, trailing, easy to grow. ...[ More Info ]
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Alternanthera 'Mai Tai'Common Name: Joseph's Coat
Leaves have a hot pink, burgundy, chartreuse, and green coloration. ...[ More Info ]
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Alternanthera 'Purple Knight'Common Name: Joseph's Coat
Royal purple foliage that deepens in color under full sun. Reliable performer, requires little in the way of care. ...[ More Info ]
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Alternanthera dentata 'Raspberry Rum'Common Name: Alternanthera
Upright and outwardly spreading brugundy foliage with fuchsia red splashes. ...[ More Info ]
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Alternathera dentata 'Little Ruby'Common Name: Alternathera
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Ammi majus 'Graceland'Common Name: Lady's Lace
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Amsonia hubrichtiiCommon Name: Thread-leaf Blue Star
Steel-blue star-shaped flowers, very fine textured green foliage, turns an incredible golden yellow in the fall. The cool blue flower does a good job of toning down adjacent flower colors in border....
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Amsonia illustrisCommon Name: Prairie Blue Star
Steel blue flowers. Shiny willow-like leaves turn bright gold in the fall....
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Anchusa capensisCommon Name: Summer-forget-me-not
This plant produces flowers of rich gentian blue for most of the summer. Plants are upright and narrow, ideal for tucking into mixed containers or massing towards the front of a sunny border. ...[ More Info ]
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Andropogon gerardiiCommon Name: Big Bluestem
Purplish flower spikes, three-branched seedheads resembling a turkey foot. Blue-green to silver-blue foliage turns reddish-copper in fall....
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Anethum graveolens 'Fernleaf'Common Name: Fernleaf Dill
White umbels of flowers in mid summer, flower heads bear seeds with a celery/anise combination flavor. Attractive feathery blue-green lacey foliage....
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Anethum graveolens 'Superdukat'Common Name: Dill
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Anethum graveolens 'Vierling'Common Name: Dill
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Angelonia 'Angel Face Blue'Common Name: Summer Snapdragon
Tall spikes of small orchid-like blue-purple flowers grow on sturdy stems. Lanceolate deep green foliage....
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Angelonia 'Angelface Wedgewood Blue'Common Name: Summer Snapdragon
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Angelonia 'Angelface Pink Improved'Common Name: Summer Snapdragon
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Angelonia angustifolia 'Angelface Blue Imp'Common Name: Summer Snapdragon
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Angelonia angustifolia 'Zebra'Common Name: Summer Snapdragon
Unique flower color. Rich rose blooms accented with clear mauve stripes on the petals and a burgundy throat. ...[ More Info ]
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Antirrhinum hispanicum 'Roseum'Common Name: Spanish Snapdragon
Rose-pink flowers over silver-blue foliage begin blooming in June and continue through the summer. Soft, subtle pastel colors and glaucous foliage make this plant a winner. ...[ More Info ]
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Aquilegia 'Songbird Blue Bird Improved'Common Name: Columbine
Light blue and white flowers. Gray-green, deeply divided leaves....
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Aquilegia canadensisCommon Name: Wild Columbine
Several semi-pendent, bell-shaped flowers with yellow sepals and red spurs. Fern-like dark green foliage....
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Aquilegia x 'Songbird Cardinal'Common Name: Columbine
Red and white bicolor flowers. Almost fern-like gray-green foliage is somewhat suggestive of meadow rue....
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Aralia cordata 'Sun King'Common Name: Golden Japanese Spikenard
‘Sun King’ emerges mid-spring with bright gold leaves held on nicely contrasting reddish brown stems. If given at least a few hours of sun a day, the foliage will remain yellow all summer. In heavier shade, the foliage rang... [ More Info ]
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Arisaema triphyllumCommon Name: Jack in the Pulpit
Tiny, on a clublike spadix. Preacher Jack in his "pulpit" is enveloped by the canopylike spathe, which is either green or many hues of brown. Individual plants have male and female flowers, the male above the female, or may have only male or only fem...
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Artemisia 'Powis Castle'Common Name: Hardy Dusty Miller
Uniform mounds, grown for stunning feathery silver foliage. Known for its unique color and fragrance, needs good drainage. Yellow flowers are borne in drooping heads....
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Artemisia annuaCommon Name: Sweet Annie
Flowers are a pale yellow. Lace-leaved green foliage....
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Artemisia dracunculus 'Sativa'Common Name: French Tarragon
Green leaves are long and narrow with a distinctively peppery scent and an anise undertone....
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Arundo donax 'Peppermint Stick'Common Name: Giant Reed
‘Peppermint Stick’ displays incredible cream, sage green, and dark green stripes in an alternating fashion along the wide, strappy leaves and even up the stout stalks. ...[ More Info ]
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Asarum canadenseCommon Name: Wild Ginger
Urn-shaped,brownish-red flowers are hidden beneath the foliage. Heart-shaped leaves, spread by rhizomes under soil level....
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Asarum splendensCommon Name: Ginger-Chinese Wild
The large, dark green, deer-resistant leaves (evergreen to 10 degrees F) are heavily adorned with silvery mottling throughout. Asarum splendens is a vigorously rhizomatous species. In early spring, you will also love this one for t... [ More Info ]
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Asclepias cur 'Silky Gold'Common Name: Milkweed
Clusters of golden-yellow flowers and yellow-green lance-shaped leaves. ...[ More Info ]
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Asclepias curassavicaCommon Name: Blood Flower
Scarlet/orange/yellow flowers. The seeds are in spindle shaped pods, that have a crown of silky hairs and blow into the wind like miniature parachutes. Oblanceolate green leaves....
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Asclepias incarnataCommon Name: Swamp Milkweed
Clusters of white and bright pinkish-crimson flowers. Long narrow foliage on very erect stems....
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Asclepias tuberosaCommon Name: Butterfly Weed
Clusters of reddish-orange flowers. Rough dark green narrow foliage on erect stems....
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Asclepias tuberosa interiorCommon Name: Butterfly Weed
Clusters of reddish-orange flowers. Rough dark green narrow foliage on erect stems. ...[ More Info ]
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Asplenium ebenoidesCommon Name: Dragon Tail Fern
Smooth glossy deep green fronds that elongate at the tip....
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Astilbe chinensis 'Visions'Common Name: Astilbe
Lilac purple flowers and bronze-green leaves. This cultivar is one of the more drought tolerant varieties....
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Astilbe chinensis 'Visions in Pink'Common Name: Astilbe
Pink flowers on well branched full spikes, thick blue-green foliage, very durable....
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Astilbe chinensis 'Visions in Red'Common Name: False Spirea
Pinkish-red flowers and thick, dark bronze-green foliage....
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Astilbe chinensis 'Vision in White'Common Name: Chinese Astilbe
'Vision in White' is a robust growing selection which produces loads of large, creamy white, triangular plumes in midsummer. Though the foliage is full and robust like others in the Visions series, it is not as coarsely textured. Rather, the green l...
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Astilbe simplicifolia 'Sprite'Common Name: False Spirea
Shell pink, deeply divided, dark glossy green foliage....
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Athyrium filix-feminaCommon Name: Lady Fern
Light green finely textured fronds, easy vigorous grower, non-evergreen....
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Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Silver Falls'Common Name: Japanese Painted Fern
Unlike any other painted fern, this one intensifies their silvering as the season progresses! Stunning, lustrous fronds that shimmer with its contrasting red veins.
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Atriplex hortensis 'Red Orach'Common Name: Red Orach Greens
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