Native

Hoary Vervain

NATIVE perennial to 24" with long lasting steeples of blue-purple blossoms. Beneficial to pollinators and tolerates dry conditions.

Red Baneberry

NATIVE shade perennial, 1'-2' tall. Showy white blossoms in spring, bright red (poisonous to humans) berries in summer.

Common Blue Violet

NATIVE 3"-8" groundcover forms colonies through rhizomes and self-seeding. A forager's delight with edible leaves all season and edible blossoms in spring. Larval host for frittillary butterflies.

Blue Ridge Buckbean

NATIVE Bold bright yellow spikes to 4' tall attract bees and butterflies in early summer. Spreads 2'-3' and forms an extremely sturdy taproot.

Bloodroot

NATIVE single ephemeral star-shaped blossoms emerge from furled leaves for a very short time in early spring. Forms leafy colonies 6"-10" tall that fade and die back in summer.

Red Elderberry

NATIVE woody shrub or small tree 6'-20' tall, roughly pyramidal inflorescences in late spring. Seeds are poisonous and should be removed during processing the bright red berries into jam, wine, etc. or leave on the plant for wildlife.

Obedient Plant

NATIVE late summer bloomer grows up to 4' tall and spreads 2'-3' by rhizomes. Sturdy member of the mint family pollinated by bumblebees and visited by hummingbirds and long-tongued insects.

Alpine Strawberry

NATIVE "everbearing" summer treat produces white flowers and small red fruits simultaneously once the season is underway in June! Grows 4"-9" tall, 8"-12" wide, spreads by stolons.

Rattlesnake Master

Forms a rosette of long, fibrous foliage from corm-like crown. Clusters of flowers resemble thistles but are members of the carrot family and grow on flowerstalks to 3'-5' tall. Native to central and southeast US. Great cut flower.

Bunchberry

NATIVE ground cover related to dogwood, grows to 4"-6". Blooms in late spring with white showy bracts surrounding the true flower. Bright red berries beloved by birds and edible by humans follow.

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