* Guides and Keys are from the book
"Herbaceous Perennial Plants A Treatise on their Identification,
Culture and Garden Attributes" by
Dr
Allan M. Armitage of the University of Georgia. Varsity Press,
Athens, Georgia. 1989 ISBN 0-942375-00.
More on Dr
Armitage and his other books.
This
is a group of perennials and shrubs that are
native to the Midwest and Rocky Mountain area of
the United States. They have opposite or whorled
leaves and brightly colored tubular flowers in
terminal racemes during the summer. The plants
grow from low clumps of dark green or maroon
foliage from which the flower stalks emerge.
