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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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More evidence that biodiversity within a native plant community creates a healthy habitat by providing what is needed for the health of all. Over long times of evolving together each surviving member of each community has complicated interdependencies just beginning to be examined and understood.
It was interesting to note that the white turtlehead/chelone glabra was the only plant they found with said ingredient within the nectar as well as the rest of the plant. Bees Use Drugs? Evidence of Self-Medication - YardMap Quote:
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Nice rain garden plant or along a swale or pond. A native pink also grows here in Illinois, less commonly but within wooded shade.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Just today, I collected a couple seed pods from a white turtlehead that I spotted blooming earlier this fall along the side of a road. I'm hoping to grow a colony of them and maintain the local genotype.
Good to know it is even more beneficial than just providing food. Thanks for sharing, Gloria. Another great reason to promote biodiversity. I'm so excited about creating habitat here on our property with a huge variety of natives with woodland, meadow, and wetland.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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I have white and pink turtlehead. I didn't think the pink was native. The bees like mine though. I need to move the white to an area where it will get more water. It is host for the Baltimore checkerspot my state butterfly. Do you think the checkerspot would use the pink turtlehead Gloria? I think I will move the white to where the pink is.
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I'd love to grow it but I don't have a moist spot for it. I've tried and failed at swamp milkweed, it is so dry here. Some of the more moisture loving shrubs I can grow if I keep them watered the first year or two until the roots get deep enough into the soil to sustain themselves. Perennials are another thing altogether unless they are tap rooted. It looks like Chelone is fibrous rooted so that's a problem.
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Very cool. I hope you get to witness the life cycle of your state butterfly.
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linrose, would you consider sinking a water-tight tub into the ground or a liner? You could fill it with a moisture-holding soil and if the natural rainfall doesn't keep it moist enough, you could always fill it with a hose on occasion when necessary.
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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That's a good idea. I tried to do something like that at the end of a drainage swale with a retaining wall and good rich soil but I didn't use any liner. I had hoped it would slow down the runoff downslope where it breaks fairly steeply to avoid erosion during big rain storms. My feeble attempt at a "rain garden". I planted ferns there that have done well. I could try to renovate it and add a liner of sorts. I'd also like to expand it anyway. Thanks for a good fall project idea!
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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Mine is pretty drought tolerant. We had a long dry spell this summer and it did well. It is in part shade
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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There is a native white chelone glabra with a wide distribution throughout eastern U.S. Of the 4 main species, all native to eastern North America, 3 are very specific to place.
There are several named garden cultivars sold by the horticultural industry bred for flower color and size. http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/...turtlehead.htm Quote:
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