Imagine the park without flowers

Cardinal Flower

Regina Alvarez, the park's Woodlands Manager, is also the director of Horticulture. She writes:

Following is a list of plants we have been planting this month at the Lakeshore:

Aquatics:

•Pickerel weed (Pontedaria cordata)

•Soft rush (Juncus effuses)

•Bulrush (Scirpus validus)

•Tussock sedge (Carex stricta)

•Lizard tail (Saururus cernuus)

•Bur-reed (Sparganium americanum)

•Sweet flag (Acorus calamus)

•Cattail (Typha angustifolia)

•Marsh mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)

•Duck potato (Sagittaria latifolia)

•Three square (Scirpus pungens)

•Blueflag iris (Iris versicolor)

Wetland plants:

•Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

•Switch grass (Panicum virgatum)

•Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

•Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnate)

•Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)