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Sweet Joe Pye / Eutrochium purpureum
This woodland Joe Pye is an amazingly versatile plant. It can take full sun or shade, wet or dry soil. It can grow up to 7 feet tall, so if you hav...
View full detailsGray's Sedge / Carex grayi
Gray's Sedge, or Common Bur Sedge, is a wonderful garden addition, growing to two or three feet with incredible mace-like seed heads that last for ...
View full detailsGreat Blue Lobelia / Lobelia siphilitica
A fantastic garden plant, Great Blue Lobelia is both beautiful and provides nectar for native pollinators in late summer. It really is funny to wat...
View full detailsStoneroot / Collinsonia canadensis
Stoneroot, also known as richweed or horsebalm, has to be one of the most interesting woodland plants from our eastern forests, with big, toothed l...
View full detailsGolden Alexander / Zizia aurea
Golden Alexander blooms in late spring and is the native host plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies in their caterpillar stage. It sports a numbe...
View full detailsBlue-Stemmed Goldenrod / Solidago caesia
A lovely woodland denizen that grows to three or four feet and elegantly drapes itself on other plants. Very well-behaved in the garden and a wonde...
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