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A unique plant with striking blue, closed flowers whose shape give this gentian its common name. Because the flowers are closed and difficult to ac...

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. solidago ohioensis. A shorter and impressively blooming goldenrod. Fairly adaptable, but favors moist soil that contains clay. Blooms roughl...

A thin leaved goldenrod of medium height that prefers moist soils, but tolerates some dryer conditions and drought! Individual blooms are smaller t...

A delicate, somewhat short-lived lobelia easily distinguished from its cousins by its small stature and white flowers. Tolerates close proximity an...

Related and similar to the purple prairie clover, but with white blooms! A nitrogen fixer that easily grown in dry soils. Drought resistant and can...

A wetland plant with iris-like leaves and a distinctive, subtle spadix (bloom spike). Easy to grow and colony forming in shallow standing water, bo...

A slender, showy ironweed that tolerates medium soil and minor drought. Easily grown with flowers that are attractive to many butterflies, includin...

A.k.a. marginal shield fern and leather fern. A classic fern in form that nonetheless is standout due to its comparatively low water requirements a...

A.k.a. Wood’s sedge. A shorter, spreading sedge whose recommendation from the Mt. Cuba Center as a shade groundcover is its claim to fame. Similar ...

A charismatic wildtype from the well known delphinium family! Flowers are unique and beloved by hummingbirds. Best planted on rich, well drained s...

A.k.a. alumroot and coral bells. A low growing plant with attractive foliage, flower stalks make up the majority of its height. Fall color is widel...

A.k.a. winecups or wine cups. A showy bloomer with large, magenta flowers that needs dryer, well drained soil. Grows up to two feet tall but its lo...

A.k.a. white blue-eyed grass. A hardy blue-eyed grass that prefers dryer, loamy soils. Flowers are small, but bloom in succession and may repeated...

A.k.a. summer phlox and fall phlox. The wildtype of the popular garden plant! This taller phlox is a showstopper in full bloom, with large, fragran...

A.k.a. purplestem or purple-stemmed angelica, high angelica, and masterwort. A striking, native member of the carrot family! Flowers are small, but...

A.k.a. narrow-leaf or narrowleaf blue-eyed grass. A hardy blue-eyed grass that prefers average conditions and soils. Flowers are small, but bloom i...

A showy Great Plains species with palm-sized yellow flowers! Easternmost wild populations in Illinois and Tennessee. An excellent companion for oth...

A.k.a. Western Indian physic. A distinctive, generally adaptable plant with gracile stems and flowers. N does not runner and reseeds sparingly, may...

An herbaceous plant in the guise of a shrub- spikenard is a unique addition to shade gardens and an excellent replacement for Japanese knotweed! Fl...

A.k.a. Large-flowered beardtongue. A smaller, dry soil beardtongue that blooms with one stalk of large, foxglove-like flowers. Exceptionally drough...

  A midsized false indigo that is fuller and showier than small yellow wild indigo, but not as beefy as blue wild indigo. Fairly easy to grow and a...

  A.k.a. pale beardtongue. A penstemon that flourishes in poor, dry soils! Adaptable to many soil types, but prefers good drainage and may be outco...

A hardy, adaptable, drought tolerant spurge with profuse white blooms! Flowers are attractive to bees and small butterflies, including the endange...