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Purple prairie clover is a showy, native North American perennial. It grows in slender-looking, upright clumps, with fine leaves and cylindrical spikes of purple flowers. Drought tolerant. This is a pollinator favorite plant - the pollen and nectar...

Superb cultivar, easy to grow, favorite and often-used perennial that's highly recommended by the Mt. Cuba research center:     - in comparison to its cousin 'Zagreb', 'Moonbeam' offer airy, wide clumps that open almost like a vase...

This excellent perennial was selected by Mt. Cuba center: "Coreopsis tripteris ‘Gold Standard’ combines all of the great attributes of the straight species, like excellent hardiness and disease resistance, with a smaller and sturdier habit...

Trouble free, compact plant with a very long blooming season.Yellow, star-shaped flowers with orange discs start blooming in June. In suitable conditions freely (moderatelly) self seeds and fills the gaps. Heat and drought tolerant. Deer, rabbit and...

This modest and tough wildflower grows in ground-covering clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes, so in time and good conditions it can form some colonies (though it's not an aggressive spreader at all). 2" yellow flowers, dark green foliage. Coreopsis...

This native wildflower is a very showy plant that has big, golden yellow flowers and a long flowering season. It grows in clumps of light green, hairy leaves. For sunny flower beds with drier/drained soils, wildflower gardens, meadows or prairies. It is...

'Zagreb' is a superb cultivar and one of the few winners of Mt. Cuba's Coreopsis trials! Here are the main reasons :     - it's the most popular and dependable perennials of all time    - the dense, spreading clumps of very fine,...

This fall flowering clematis has fragrant, cream-white flowers in late summer through early fall (flowers are 1.25" in diameter). This is the ideal substitute for the invasive Clematis ternifolia (sweet autumn clematis) introduced from Japan. The native...

'Tiny Tortuga' = dense mounding perennial, the shortest and compact cultivar of Chelone. . This gorgeous, adaptable perennial grows in mounds that stay tightly closed and have a ground-covering habit. The clumps of shiny, dark green leaves are topped by...

This is a taller and slender-looking perennial that has white/white-pink turtlehead flowers in August to September. Grows into narrow, upright clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes.  The best uses are in shade gardens, woodland gardens, bog gardens,...

This ground covering, non-invasive perennial hails from Western China. It grows into a dense mat of glossy leaves with slightly reddish stems, accented with dark gentian-blue flowers in late summer through early fall. Towards the fall, the leaves...

Also called yellow scabious, this tall, airy perennial is quite stately, reaching 6' tall pretty early in the season while other tall prairie plants are still rather small. It also starts flowering fairly early in the summer, creating a display of...

This perennial has unique, purple-blue flowers that appear from late summer to early fall. It dies back completely in the winter. The foliage releases an unpleasant aroma when crushed, which causes deer to avoid it.  Caryopteris divaricata...

Robust wetland sedge for moist to wet soils. Carex vulpinoidea forms regular clumps that have an evergreen look. The leaves are bright green and narrow, and it bears attractive fox tail-shaped seed heads in May/June (don't last long). Some...

Very valuable groundcover sedge for dry shade. Carex pennsylvanica is unpalatable to deer, rabbits, livestock, and other herbivores. Pennsylvania Sedge forms soft, grass-like clumps of very narrow, bright green leaves. The clumps will spread,...

Marsh marigolds are hardy and quite common perennials that can be found throughout the whole northern hemisphere, thriving in temperate zones. Caltha palustris has leathery, light green, round leaves and large, golden-yellow flowers in late...

This native woodland perennial grass spreads very slowly and forms clumps that have a light, airy structure. The leaves are gray-green; the long panicles of satin-silver flowers often flop to one side and turn brown-yellow with age. ...

Shorter or dwarf form of false aster. Var. latisquama has larger flowers than the more widely-spread Boltonia asteroides; it is also native to the more central USA, along with only a handful of states in the Northeast/New England area. This upright...