Solanum jasminoides (Potato vine)
Other names: Solanum laxum Album, Solanum jasminoides var Album
S. jasminoides has a scent like jasmine, but is not as overpowering. It is a reliable plant that blooms very well in the spring and has a mild perfume. It is hard to kill with too much or too little water once established.
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2m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Solanum laxum 'Album' (White potato vine)
Other names: Solanum jasminoides 'Album'
'Album' is a semi-evergreen, perennial climber with slender twining stems. It has deeply cut, dark green foliage and white flowers in tight clusters that appear in summer.
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4m max. spread |
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6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Solanum laxum 'Album Variegatum' (Jasmine nightshade 'Album Variegatum')
Other names: Solanum jasminoides 'Album Variegatum', Potato vine 'Album Variegatum', White variegated potato vine, Solanum laxum 'Aureovariegata', Solanum laxum 'Aureovariegatum'
'Album Variegatum' is a tender, semi-evergreen to evergreen, twining, perennial climber bearing narrowly ovate to lance-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves with irregular, bright yellow margins and fragrant, white flowers from early summer into autumn.
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1.5m max. spread |
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3m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Other names: Ground nut, Cinnamon vine, Ground pen, Indian potato, Mic-mac potato, North Ameican potato bean, North American wild bean, Pig potato, Potato bean, Potato pea, Sagabon, Trailing pea, Tuberose wisteria, Tuberous-rooted wisteria, White apple, Wild bean, Apios tuberosa, Glycine tuberosa
A. americana is a twining, herbaceous, perennial climber with rounded, edible tubers, pinnate leaves divided into ovate or lance-shaped, mid-green leaflets and dense, conical racemes of fragrant, pea-like, pink, deep purple, or reddish-brown flowers in late summer and early autumn. Flowers are followed by long, green seed pods.
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2m max. spread |
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5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Claytonia virginica (Spring beauty)
Other names: Good morning spring, Grass flower, Wild potato, Eastern spring beauty, Virginia spring beauty, Fairy spud
C. virginica is a compact, tufted, deciduous perennial with edible tubers, fleshy, linear to narrowly lance-shaped, dark green leaves and racemes of cup-shaped, fragrant, pink-striped white flowers in spring.
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0.2m max. spread |
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0.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly flower)
Other names: Milkweed, Butterfly weed, Chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, Silkweed, Butterfly root, Chieger flower, Flux root, Indian potato, Orange root, Pleurisy root, Swallow root, Tuber root, Wind root, Windward root
A. tuberosa is an upright herbaceous perennial with lance-shaped mid green leaves and bright orange flowers in summer and autumn.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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