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    Seersucker sedge

    Carex plantaginea

    Seersucker sedge is an evergreen, spreading sedge with narrow brown-black flowers on 8-inch stems in spring.

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    Red buckeye

    Aesculus pavia

    This conical shrub to small tree has palmate leaves and bears red (sometimes yellow-marked) flowers in 6-inch panicles in summer, followed by smooth-skinned fruit.

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    Liverwort

    Hepatica acutiloba

    An early bloomer, liverwort has tiny, cup-shaped, blue, pink, or white flowers in spring.

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    Rain lily

    Zephyranthes reginae

    These Mexican native bulbs actually offer demanding gardeners flowers on demand.

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    ‘Victoria’ mealycup sage

    Salvia farinacea 'Victoria'

    This compact perennial forms a bush less than 1.

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    Foxglove penstemon

    Penstemon digitalis

    This vigorous perennial bears elegant clusters of pure white flowers marked with purple or pale violet from early to late summer.

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    Sulfur flower

    Eriogonum umbellatum

    Wild buckwheats have assumed star roles in drought-tolerant landscapes throughout the West, and none is more useful than sulfur flower.

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    Blackhaw Viburnum

    Viburnum prunifolium

    Blackhaw Viburnum is a large shrub or small tree with clusters of creamy white flowers followed by pink-rose berries, which birds love to eat.

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    Franklin tree

    Franklinia alatamaha

    Discovered in the wild along Georgia's Altamaha River in 1765 by botanists John and William Bartram, this beautiful landscape tree is considered extinct in the wild.

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    Dahlberg daisy

    Thymophylla tenuiloba

    This fragrant annual is covered with delicate, daisy-like yellow blossoms in July and August.