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Athyrium filix-femina

Lady Fern

Athyrium filix-femina
Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) is widely adaptable and fast growing classic beauty. Creeping by rootstocks, it is perfect for planting on wooded...
Baptisia lactea

White False Indigo

Baptisia lactea
White False Indigo (Baptisia lactea) is an excellent specimen plant. Resembling an asparagus plant when it first appears, this amazing plant...
Campanula americana

Tall Bellflower

Campanula americana
Here's a real showpiece of the woodland! Spikes of bright blue flowers rise from deep green basal leaves in mid-summer, much to the delight of...
Carex radiata*

Eastern Star Sedge

Carex radiata*
Forms attractive dense tufts of slender leaf blades in dappled to medium shade.  Small star-like flower clusters rise in late spring. Slow to...
Carex sprengelii*

Long Beaked Sedge

Carex sprengelii*
This is one of the showiest and most important sedges of both upland and moist woodlands in the Upper Midwest and New England. Numerous pendulant...
Cassia hebecarpa

Wild Senna

Cassia hebecarpa
In mid-summer a profusion of butter-yellow flowers appear atop the lush deep green foliage of Wild Senna (Cassia hebecarpa). The chocolate brown...
Chelone glabra

White Turtlehead

Chelone glabra
The beautiful Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly catepillar relies exclusively on this rare wetland plant as a food source. The unique flower of Chelone...
Clematis virginiana

Virgin's Bower

Clematis virginiana
Virgin's Bower is a native Clematis that lights up the fall landscape with its silky, feather-like silvery seedheads. The small white flowers of...
Comptonia peregrina

Sweet Fern

Comptonia peregrina
Not a true fern, this low growing shrub does best in sandy soils, from well-drained dry sites to the edges of marshes. Sweet Fern (Comptonia...
Coreopsis rosea

Rose Coreopsis

Coreopsis rosea
Rose Coreopsis is a showy, rare to endangered native of eastern states. Readily propagated, fine, dense green foliage gives way to numerous small...