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Modest native perennial, easy to grow plant and true pollinator magnet. Finally we offer the true native one, because many plants and seeds on the market are Korean Mint - Agastache rugosum. Upright clumps, spikes with small lavender-purple flowers, long...

Clump-forming, easy to grow perennial. Great for hummers, butterflies and native bees. Tough and resilient. Typically grows to 3-3.5' and 0.5-0.7' wide. Forms smaller mounds of dense packed leaves and rigid, upright stems with tubular flowers (to 1.25"...

Charming late summer and fall grass. Native on sandy, disturbed, or infertile soils in the east from Maine to Minnesota down to Florida and Mexico. Hardy in zones 5-9. Forms 2 foot tall and wide, spreading clumps of coarse blades which transform in late...

New England Aster 'Purple Dome' is short and compact cultivar with dark-purple flowers, reaching only 18-24" of height and up to 3' of width. ‘Purple Dome’ is actually natural form, that was discover in nature - it was first observed along...

Western sunflower is one of the shortest perennial sunflowers and also the well behaving ones! Grow only to 3-4' tall x 2' wide, it still spreads wide by rhizomes, but it is not as aggressive as many tall cousins. In years, it can form colonies, but you...

Compact and shorter version of the rough goldenrod. Surprisingly drought tolerant too. Solidago 'Fireworks' is perfectly named for its flowering stems which look like golden streamers of fireworks in late summer and early fall. Grows to 40" tall and 35"...

Nice wildflower for shady gardens. Native to eastern half of USA, can be found in moist, rich woodlands and woodland edges, but can tolerate full sun. With more sun (or dappled sun), the starry, fragrant flower will get bigger. Flowers in late spring,...

Golden Alexanders is a wonderful and early flowering perennial. Native wildflower from Eastern Canada to southern United States, occurs in moist, open woods, meadows, and prairies. It's hardy in zones 3 to 8. It grows to 2-3' tall and up to 2' wide, the...

Wingstem is overlooked plant, and you think,....so "common", so "weedy" or "boring"....(?) Alright, but look at this plant closely again: - very late blooming plant, usually ends with first frosts - the flowers are unusual (have you check them, how...

Tough and hardy native wildflower, also known as Gravelweed or Actinomeris helianthoides. This plants reminds of woodland sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus), but flower much earlier from June to July/August. Yellow daisy-like flowers, up to 3' tall...

Zig-zag spiderwort is probably the most robust spiderwort and also true shade loving perennial. 'LSS Lazy Blue' has very pale blue flowers, this selection originates in Lazzy SS Nursery in Virginia (nursery closed down for retirement in 2018). Zig-zag...

This clump-forming perennial has grass-like arching leaves and bears clusters of three-petaled blue flowers (0.75-1.5" diameter) from early to midsummer (each flower remains open for only one day). It often becomes dormant in the hottest part of summer...

'Concord Grape,' of the virginiana group, offers compact clumps of grassy, gray-green leaves (about 12" tall) that contrast nicely with the large (over 1"), dark purple-pink flowers.  Spiderworts are often underused as perennials...

Tough, clump forming and ground covering perennial.Also known as Stachys grandiflora. It somehow reminds of famous Stachys 'Hummelo', but is lot more robust - with rather big wrinkled leaves and big pink-purple flowers on elongated stems. Not very common...

'Silver Carpet' is non-flowering and small-leaf cultivar of Lamb's ear. Modest, quite fast growing and easy to grow, ground covering perennial. Popular for it's dense mats of hairy silver leaves and being very good weed suppressor. 4-6" tall x 18-30"...

One of the easy-to-grow natives and a very showy grass with good ecological value! Prairie dropseed is a major component of the prairie ecosystem along with big bluestem and Indian grass, ranging across North America from the Rocky Mountains. It forms...

'Indian Steel' is seed strain selection with steel-blue foliage, 5’ tall x 2.5' wide, with feathery spikes of yellow flowers with nice bronze fall color, while the leaves turn yellow. Nice vertical structure, color and fall color makes this all...

Stiff Goldenrod 'Golden Rocket' is dwarf seed selection made by German company Jelitto. 'Golden Rocket' grows to 1.75' tall x 1' wide. It looks more compact, dense than the wild form, but it keeps all the characteristic of the species - gray leaves, flat...