If it lived up to its name, it would be priceless. Heal-all grows at the edge of the woods, or in your lawn, or anywhere else it can find space. It’s a very common weed, but surprisingly beautiful close up. This specimen grew in Bird Park in Mount Lebanon.
Favors wet areas; these plants were spotted on the edge of a marshy pond in a small park in the Allegheny valley.
A beautiful vine prized in gardens, but only where it has room to take over. It can form a dense canopy, and in the late summer it bursts into thousands of white flowers, looking for all the world like a misplaced snowdrift.
The showy part of this plant, as with its relative the poinsettia, is the leaf. Only a close view reveals the comparatively insignificant flowers.
Snow-on-the-Mountain is a common garden escape that grows in sunny vacant lots or along railroad tracks.
