Native

Tall American Bellflower

Campanula americana

NATIVE self-seeding biennial to 48" with blue-violet flowers up a tall flower stalk. 

Nodding Onion

Alium Cernuum

NATIVE member of the onion family with edible chive-like shoots. Pale lavender blossoms nod in attractive dangling clusters from 18" stems.  Will spread by seed and clusters.

Boneset

NATIVE medicinal plants grow to 30" with fuzzy flat-topped clusters of small white flowers.

New York Ironweed

NATIVE perennial to 84" with showy clusters of royal purple blooms in late summer-early fall. 

Ohio Spiderwort

NATIVE perennial has attractive, grass-like blue-green foliage with lavender-blue flowers that open in the morning and close in the heat of the day. Forms clumps up to 3 feet tall, spreads by rhizomes, and handles poor soil conditions. Bees love this long-blooming plant!

Smooth Blue Aster

NATIVE perennial to 48" with lavender-blue flowers and smooth blue-green foliage.  Important late-blooming pollinator plant.  

Steeplebush

NATIVE shrub of moist soil to 42" with tall showy spires of tiny pink flowers.  Attractive yellow fall foliage.  

Flowering Raspberry

NATIVE ornamental shrub with large, attractive, maple-like leaves and showy fuchsia flowers reminiscent of rose blossoms. May form extensive colonies up to 60" tall.

 

Jacob's Ladder

NATIVE spring ephemeral wildflower to 12" with ornamental lavender-blue flowers.  

Hairy Beardtongue

NATIVE perennial to 18" with clusters of lavender bell-shaped flowers loved by bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. 

Photo Credit: Ryan Hodnett

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