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Black Hucklberry

Give huckleberries a bit of room and they will spread to form a thicket just 3 feet tall. Many species of butterflies visit the bell-shaped flowers in springtime. The flowers […]

Burgundy Blanket Flower

Olive green foliage and upright stems form an rounded, bushy plant that is covered with deep burgundy red, short rayed, fat center coned flowers starting in June. ‘Burgundy’ is a […]

Franklinia, Franklin Tree

This small specimen tree is valued for its showy, white, late summer flowers and striking yellow to orange to red fall color. Native but extinct in the wild, it was […]

Large Fothergilla

It’s hard to find a native plant that has as much landscape beauty and utility than this plant. Dense and rounded in form, its tightly packed branches are the focus […]

Dwarf Bottlebrush Witchalder

Before leaves emerge, this plant is covered with white, sweetly scented, bottlebrush flowers on the branch ends of its dense, rounded form. Native butterflies and insects flock to the bloom […]

A true, small-leaf, small-stature Fothergilla x intermedia from Tom Ranney and his team at NCSU. After trialing about a dozen of his selections, this was the clear winner in terms of vigor, flower […]

Queen of the Prairie

Queen of the prairie is a very tall, clump-forming perennial with small pink flowers that carries a slight fragrance. Its upright structure sits is pedestaled on large, bright green, lance-shaped […]

Little Joe Pye Weed

If you are looking for a butterfly magnet to add fluttering color to your home landscape, you just have to grow ‘Little Joe’. Like its bigger brother ‘Gateway’, ‘Little Joe’ […]

Purple Lovegrass

Light green foliage forms a loose, open mound in the landscape that gives rise to tall, thin flowers stalks in August bearing a fine textured cloud of pinkish seed heads […]

‘Mellow Yellows’ Coneflower

This native plant is a beautiful and long-lasting coneflower, with light yellow and golden petals surrounding an orange eye. It is a vigorous and sturdy plant that makes for an […]