The colors of the late summer garden are mostly brilliant purples, reds, oranges and yellows. Turtlehead is an easy-to-grow perennial plant native to our area whose late summer flowers provide a ...

Native turtlehead plants that grow in damp places in Westborough bring us fall blossoms, old-fashioned fun, and a summer butterfly. In early September, turtlehead ( Chelone glabra)blossoms open on ...

* What it is: Turtlehead is a U.S.-native perennial flower that blooms late summer to early fall. Flowers spikes are white or pink with shield-shaped little bloom clusters that some say remind them of ...

a larger palette of plants to choose from, which creates a more diverse urban we think of late summer blooming plants we normally think first of Asters. Turtlehead is a unique, late summer blooming ...

After waiting for a warm, summery day, biologist Doug Taron and a handful of colleagues fanned out through a thousand acres of restored prairie this month, stroking plants with delicate paintbrushes ...

Among the blooming perennials of late summer is one that guards its secrets closely. The lockbox blossoms of white turtlehead (Chelone glabra), a native plant in the plantain family, are an ideal ...

Tramping through 100 yards of tall grass on a recent humid, sticky afternoon, Susan Muller could see her triumph clearly. There, perched on a green thistle, was a beautiful Baltimore checkerspot ...