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	[[Image:blackberrylily.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Blackberry Lily]]		[[Image:blackberrylily.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Blackberry Lily]]

-	'''Common Name:''' Blackberry Lily<ref>This article is based on Peggy Cornett, CHP Information Sheet.</ref>	+	'''Common Name:''' Blackberry Lily<ref>This article is based on a Center for Historic Plant Information Sheet.</ref>

-	'''Scientific Name:''' ''Belamcanda chinesis''	+	'''Scientific Name:''' ''Belamcanda chinensis''

-	'''Description:''' Hardy, herbaceous summer-flowering perennial; Robust plant with red-spotted orange flowers on stalks, followed by unusual seed heads that resemble blackberries, but the seeds are not edible	+	This Asian perennial, which [[Thomas Jefferson]] called "Chinese Ixia," is actually a member of the Iris family. Jefferson first received seed from nurseryman [[Bernard McMahon]] in 1807, during his second term as President of the United States.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Betts, ''Garden Book'']], 337. See also Edwin M. Betts, Hazlehurst Bolton Perkins, and Peter J. Hatch, [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3074 ''Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello''], 3rd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986), 54.
		+	</ref> These were sown in an East Front [[Oval Flower Beds\|oval flowerbed]] at Monticello.<ref>Betts, 335.</ref> Today the blackberry lilies that are found naturalized throughout Monticello are believed to be descendants of Jefferson’s original plantings.

-	'''Size:''' Grows 2 to 3 feet tall and spreads slowly	+	The Blackberry Lily is a hardy, herbaceous summer-flowering perennial with red-spotted orange flowers on stalks, followed by unusual seed heads that resemble blackberries, but the seeds are not edible.
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-	'''Cultural Information:''' Prefers full sun or light shade and well-drained, moderately rich garden loam	+
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-	'''USDA Zones:''' 5 through 9	+
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-	'''Historical Notes:''' This Asian perennial, which [[Thomas Jefferson]] called "Chinese Ixia," is actually a member of the Iris family. Jefferson first received seed from nurseryman [[Bernard McMahon]] in 1807, during his second term as President of the United States.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Betts, ''Garden Book'']], 337.</ref> These were sown in an East Front [[Oval Flower Beds\|oval flowerbed]] at Monticello.<ref>Ibid, 335.</ref> Today the blackberry lilies that are found naturalized throughout Monticello are believed to be descendants of Jefferson’s original plantings and our plants are propagated from seed collected at Monticello.	+

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
		+	*Leighton, Ann. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2331377 ''American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century.''] Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986
	*Seeds available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/631064.html.html Monticello Museum Shop]		*Seeds available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/631064.html.html Monticello Museum Shop]
	*[http://www.monticello.org/chp/index.html Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants]		*[http://www.monticello.org/chp/index.html Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants]

	[[Category:Perennials\|Lily, Blackberry]]		[[Category:Perennials\|Lily, Blackberry]]
		+	[[Category:Jefferson-Documented Plants]]

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[[Image:blackberrylily.jpg|thumb|right|Blackberry Lily]]

'''Common Name:''' Blackberry Lily<ref>This article is based on Peggy Cornett, CHP Information Sheet.</ref>

'''Scientific Name:''' ''Belamcanda chinesis''

'''Description:''' Hardy, herbaceous summer-flowering perennial; Robust plant with red-spotted orange flowers on stalks, followed by unusual seed heads that resemble blackberries, but the seeds are not edible

'''Size:''' Grows 2 to 3 feet tall and spreads slowly

'''Cultural Information:''' Prefers full sun or light shade and well-drained, moderately rich garden loam

'''USDA Zones:''' 5 through 9

'''Historical Notes:''' This Asian perennial, which [[Thomas Jefferson]] called "Chinese Ixia," is actually a member of the Iris family. Jefferson first received seed from nurseryman [[Bernard McMahon]] in 1807, during his second term as President of the United States.<ref>[[Short Title List|Betts, ''Garden Book'']], 337.</ref> These were sown in an East Front [[Oval Flower Beds|oval flowerbed]] at Monticello.<ref>Ibid, 335.</ref> Today the blackberry lilies that are found naturalized throughout Monticello are believed to be descendants of Jefferson’s original plantings and our plants are propagated from seed collected at Monticello.

==Footnotes==
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==Further Sources==
*Seeds available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/631064.html.html Monticello Museum Shop]
*[http://www.monticello.org/chp/index.html Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants]

[[Category:Perennials|Lily, Blackberry]]

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Bcraig at 18:24, 25 March 2009

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