Sun Garden
Plants grow through photosynthesis, a process where carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using chlorophyll and light from the sun as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.
Acorus americanus
Sweet Flag
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Purple Giant Hyssop
Alisma subcordatum
Common Water Plantain
Allium canadense
Wild Garlic, Wild Onion
Allium cernuum
Nodding Wild Onion
Amorpha canescens
Lead Plant
Andropogon gerardii
Big Bluestem
Anemone canadensis
Meadow Anemone
Anemone cylindrica
Thimbleweed
Aralia racemosa
Spikenard
Asclepias incarnata
Rose (Swamp) Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca
Common Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata
Whorled Milkweed
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla
White Wild Indigo
Baptisia leucophaea (bracteata var. leucophaea)
Cream Wild Indigo
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis
River Bulrush
Bouteloua curtipendula
Side-oats Grama
Calamagrostis canadensis
Blue Joint Grass
Camassia scilloides
Wild Hyacinth
Campanulastrum americanum
Tall Bellflower
Carex annectens
Yellow Fox Sedge
Carex aquatilis
Water Sedge
Carex atherodes
Hairy-leaved Lake Sedge
Carex bebbii
Bebb's Oval Sedge
Carex bicknellii
Copper-shouldered Oval Sedge
Carex brevior
Plains Oval Sedge
Carex bromoides
Brome Hummock Sedge
Carex cephalophora
Short-headed Bracted Sedge
Carex comosa
Bristly Sedge
Carex crinita
Fringed Sedge
Carex cristatella
Crested Oval Sedge
Carex frankii
Bristly Cattail Sedge
Carex hystericina
Porcupine Sedge
Carex lacustris
Common Lake Sedge
