Flowers in Providence College gardens

Scientific name
6-letter code (status)
common name

photo credit

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6-letter code: first three letters of the genus, followed by the first three letter of the species

status: whether the plant was purposely cultivated (C) or is a spontaneous forb (S)

common name: regional to the Northeastern USA

Agastache foeniculum
AGAFOE (C)
anise hyssop

photo: RE Bonoan

Amsonia ciliata
AMSCIL (C)
fringed blue star

photo: Lena Zappia, iNaturalist

Amsonia tabernaemontana
AMSTAB (C)
Eastern bluestar

photo: RE Bonoan

Artemisia vulgaris
ARTVUL (S)
common mugwort

photo: Valentin Hamon, iNaturalist

Asclepias incarnata
ASCINC (C)
swamp milkweed

photo: PC Smith, iNaturalist

Asclepias syriaca
ASCSYR (C)
common milkweed

photo: RE Bonoan

Asclepias tuberosa
ASCTUB (C)
butterfly milkweed

photo: LW Ridge, iNaturalist

Astilbe sp.
AST (C)
false goat’s beard

photo: kukarzinio, iNaturalist

Baptisia australis
BAPAUS (C)
tall blue wild indigo

photo: RE Bonoan

Bidens frondosa
BIDFRO (S)
Devil’s beggarticks

photo: matteo_76, iNaturalist

Centaurea stoebe
CENSTO (S)
spotted knapweed

photo: Kutushev Radik, iNaturalist

Cerastium holosteoides
CERHOL (S)
mouse-ear chickweed

photo: Eduard Garin, iNaturalist

Clethra alnifolia
CLEANL (C)
sweet pepperbush

photo: Tom Potterfield, iNaturalist

Daucus carota
DAUCAR (S)
wild carrot

photo: lvconrad1977, iNaturalist

Echinacea purpurea
ECHPUR (C)
purple coneflower

photo: RE Bonoan

Erigeron sp.
ERI (S)
fleabane

photo: RE Bonoan

Eutrochium maculatum
EUTMAC (C)
spotted joe-pye weed

photo: Vikcy Papuga, iNaturalist

Geranium sanguinem
GERSAN (C)
bloody crane’s-bill

photo: RE Bonoan

Hemerocallis liloasphodelus
HEMLIL (C)
yellow day

photo: urgamal, iNaturalist

Hydrangea macrophylla
HYDMAC (C)
lacecap hydrangea

photo: RE Bonoan

Hypericum perforatum
HYPPER (S)
common St. John’s wort

photo: akolter, iNaturalist

Ilex glabra
ILEGLA (C)
gallberry

photo: Mary Keim, iNaturalist

Iris sibirica
IRISIB (C)
gallberry

photo: Robert Pisch, iNaturalist

Iris versicolor
IRIVER (C)
northern blue flag

photo: RE Bonoan

Itea virginica
ITEVIR (C)
Virginia sweetspire

photo: Tom Potterfield, iNaturalist

Liastris spucata
LIASPI (C)
dense blazing star

photo: RE Bonoan

Lilium lancifolium
LILLAN (C)
tiger lily

photo: Ed Mallam, iNaturalist

Linaria vulgaris
LINVUL (S)
common toadflax

photo: Gianni del Bufalo, iNaturalist

Linnaea amabilis
LINAMA (C)
beauty bush

photo: Bill Keim, iNaturalist

Lysimachia quadrifolia
LYSQUA (S)
whorled loosestrife

photo: crgillette, iNaturalist

Melilotus officinalis
MELOFF (S)
yellow sweetclover

photo: Jay Pruett, iNaturalist

Oenothera biennis
OENBIE (S)
common evening primrose

photo: Christian Ferrer, Wikipedia

Penstemon digitalis
PENDIG (C)
Foxglove beardtongue

photo: RE Bonoan

Plantago lanceolata
PLALAN (S)
ribwort plantain

photo: Petr Harant, iNaturalist

Rudbeckia hirta
RUDHIR (C)
black-eyed Susan

photo: Scott Loarie, iNaturalist

Rudbeckia laciniata
RUDLAN (C)
cutleaf coneflower

photo: RE Bonoan

Salvia nemorosa
SALNEM (C)
purple wood sage

photo: Ioana Mita, iNaturalist

Silene latifolia
SILLAT (S)
white campion

photo: quandary, iNaturalist

Solidago sp.
SOL (C)
goldenrod

photo: Bev Currie, iNaturalist

Solidago caesia
SOLCAE (C)
bluestem goldenrod

photo: Dan Mullen, iNaturalist

Solidago sempervirens
SOLSEM (C)
Northern seaside goldenrod

photo: Bill Keim, iNaturalist

Spiraea tomentosa
SPITOM (C)
steeplebush

photo: Grodon C Tucker, iNaturalist

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYMNOV (C)
New England aster

photo: musicmanz, iNaturalist

Symphyotrichum puniceum
SYMPUN (C)
swamp aster

photo: Celia Bentoumi, iNaturalist

Taraxacum sp.
TAR (S)
dandelion

photo: RE Bonoan

Trifolium pratense
TRIPRA (S)
red clover

photo: Sergey Mayorov, iNaturalist

Trifolium repens
TRIREP (S)
white clover

photo: Gennadiy Okatov, iNaturalist

Verbena hastata
VERHAS (C)
blue vervain

photo: RE Bonoan

Viccia cracca
VICCRA (S)
tufted vetch

photo: ztar, iNaturalist