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Plant GuideButtonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
A native small tree found in wetlands from Minnesota to Florida and from New England to California, buttonbush can reach 8 to 15 feet tall and is often wider than it…
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Plant GuideSiberian Culver’s root
Veronicastrum sibiricumThis species has multiple 5- to 7-foot-tall, tapering spikes of pinkish-lavender flowers from summer to fall.
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Plant GuideBigleaf aster
Aster macrophyllusThis striking, richly-textured, deciduous ground cover has heart-shaped leaves that turn mauve in autumn.
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Plant GuideAllegheny spurge
Pachysandra procumbensThis clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial has long prostrate stems and pewter-green foliage.
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Plant Guide‘White Swan’ purple coneflower
Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’This cultivar of a native meadow coneflower has white, daisy-like flowers from early summer into early autumn.
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Plant GuideBent trillium
Trillium flexipesThis trillium produces large white flowers above the foliage in mid-spring, but the flowers are later hidden as the flower stalks nod.
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Plant GuideTickseed sunflower
Bidens aristosaThis fast-growing annual of the Midwestern wet meadows grows to 4 or 5 feet tall.
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Coral bells
Heuchera americanaRosettes of evergreen, leathery, heart-shaped leaves emerge marbled and veined with brown, maturing to deep green with copper-green shading.
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Plant Guide
Blue-stemmed goldenrod
Solidago caesiaIn early autumn, this species produces elegant, wand-shaped flowerheads atop wiry stems with blue-green, linear leaves.
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Polemonium reptans
Polemonium reptansThis North American native bears light blue bell-shaped blossoms in spring to early summer.
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