As summer days grow shorter, gardens often flag unless you have some strong season finishers. White turtlehead, Chelone glabra, is just such a plant.

This perennial offers a lovely touch of white that looks elegant when paired with blue lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica; Joe-Pye weed, Eutrochium purpureum; asters; grasses; and other plants that like moist soil.

A native of Maryland, it brings a fresh touch of cool white color to gardens, woods, stream banks, and swamps during the hot days of August and September.

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