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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...

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...

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...

Very valuable groundcover sedge for dry shade. Carex pennsylvanica is unpalatable to deer, rabbits, livestock, and other herbivores. Pennsylvania Sedge forms soft, grass-lik

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...

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...

Boltonias are great plants for adding color to the garden in the fall. Related to Asters, they are covered with 3/4" aster-like white flowers. The green-gray leaves are ornamental too. This clumping...

An upright perennial with clusters of pale lilac to whitish, fragrant flowers, aromatic minty leaves, and stems that do not branch much. This plant can bloom for very long time.

Also called "chocolate daisy" for the light chocolate fragrance of the daisy-like flowers; another common name is lyreleaf greeneyes. It has grayish, aromatic and divided leaves, pale yellow to...

A very showy plant when in bloom! Blue wild indigo is a long-lived and drought tolerant perennial that grows in robust and dense clumps. What's more, it is easy to grow and adaptable to many soils,...

This clump forming, adaptable perennial from the legume family has an ornamental leaf texture and creamy yellow/green-white flowers.  It attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and other small birds. U

This is an early flowering aster that blooms in umbels of smaller, cream-white flowers with yellow centers. It starts flowering much earlier than other asters, and continues until September.

Originally named Aster ptarmicoides, this plant was re-named to Solidago ptarmicoides in 1981 as a result of research by two botanists, Brouillet and Semple, who realized that this plant belongs to...

Aromatic aster 'October Skies' is a superb nativar and one of our all-time favorite perennials, because it:    1) grows in dense ground-covering mounds that are completely covered with smaller blue...

This native wildflower is very drought tolerant and provides an important source of nectar for pollinators late in the season (it also provides pollen for bees). It's a very hardy and tough plant...

From the Mt. Cuba research center: "A Mt. Cuba Center Plant Introduction. Ran

Very adaptable, tough mounding perennial. White Wood Aster has smaller, fragrant, starry flowers (slightly less than 1'' in diameter) that are borne very abundantly on wiry stems. In full bloom this...

Butterfly Milkweed 'Hello Yellow' is a yellow flowering form that monarch butterflies love as much as the typical orange milkweed. This pollinator magnet also attracts hummingbirds. This is a "seed...