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One of Indiana’s few evergreens, and a favorite food of cedar waxwings! Young trees are bush like and pyramidal, while adult trees are branching an...

A.k.a. Canadian serviceberry, shadbush, and junebush. An adaptable serviceberry with good fall color and berries beloved by birds! As with all serv...

A taller rush that is visibly darker in color than other local rushes. Perfect for adding visual interest to wetland plantings, filling ditches, an...

A deer resistant species that supports a variety of pollinators, including hummingbirds! Like other figworts, its flowers aren’t showy but produce ...

A.k.a. American tiger lily*. A star Midwestern lily! A slow grower that is worth the wait, it prefers moist soils but adapts to medium garden beds....

  A.k.a. windflower. A small woodland ephemeral that needs some spring sun, and shade after trees leaf out. The short lived white flowers sit on th...

A.k.a. nodding bulrush. A comparatively adaptable rush that will tolerate mesic conditions, recognizable by its flat, grass like leaves and droopin...

A hardy sunflower that will take part shade! Like other sunflowers, it supports a wide array of insects and will spread by rhizome to form colonie...

A woodland goldenrod at home on forest edges or in bright, dappled shade. Forms colonies with rhizomes, and spreads rapidly from seed in disturbed...

A.k.a. Juneberry and shadbush. A showy, adaptable, compact tree/large shrub with edible berries and blooms important for early spring pollinators! ...

A.k.a. yellow poplar. Indiana's state tree for a reason, tulip trees are adaptable, fast growing, and can reach impressive sizes! Flowers are large...

A beautifully clumping short grass with fine, sprawling leaves. Very rarely reseeds even in garden beds, making it a prime grass for landscaping. F...

 A taller, clumping sedge with lush seed heads that can adapt to mesic conditions. The wind dispersed seeds are fluffy when they mature in the fall...

A wetland sedge that puts on obvious brown spikelets. It’s bunching habit and mildly contrasting foliage color makes it showy to some extent and ex...

If there’s remnant woodland nearby, you will find the common blue violet! This, one of our hardiest native flowers, will grow almost anywhere but ...

A native to wooded slopes and well drained wooded bottomland, it adapts well to cultivation! Does not tolerate deep shade, but tolerates bright, da...

A.k.a. ironwood, musclewood, and blue beech. A small tree notable for its sinuous silver bark and shade tolerance, it can be trained into a large m...

A.k.a. grey headed coneflower and prairie coneflower. A tall but nonetheless delicate coneflower, it has a long bloom period and is broadly appeali...

A white blooming native spirea that can reach six feet in height! Flowers support a wide variety of pollinators. Does best in full sun and consiste...

A.k.a. wild leek*. These slow growing natives prefer dappled sun in the spring and shade in the warmer months. Flowering period is early summer, af...

A.k.a. sweet coneflower and fragrant coneflower. Well known from cultivars sold in traditional nurseries, this is the wild type of the hardy and lo...

A.k.a Prairie phlox. A midsized phlox that tolerates more sun than its woodland relatives. Obligate host of the rare and colorful prairie phlox flo...

An easily grown late spring-early summer bloomer at home in bright understory. Spring/summer foliage is solid green, while semi-evergreen fall/wint...

A.k.a. mossycup oak. An oak grand in both size and wildlife support. Their large, less bitter acorns are of high value to a plethora of animals, an...