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Also called “showy beardtongue” due to its succulent, leathery looking, gray-blue leaves and big tubular flowers up to 2 inches long! It makes this perennial one of the showiest North American beardtongues ever. Flowers are usually light pink...

Easy to grow, versatile and adaptable native beardtongue. White-flowering form selected from chance seedling. Not too long-lived, but persists by moderate seeding around. Blooming Time: from late May to late June. Size: 15" tall x 10-12" wide, airy...

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable. Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut. Blooming Time: from late May to late June. Size: 18" tall x 12" wide, airy clusters of changeable multicolored purple-pinkish-white...

Showy perennial with unbranched stems, basal rosettes of leaves and nearly white flowers. Looks like dainty version on Pentemon digitalis, which is more common in horticulture. Native wildflower to Central and eastern United States, see the USDA...

Underused charming native perennial with strictly upright bushy habit. Evergreen leaves with purple veins, smaller tubular purple-pink flowers in large airy panicles. Surprisingly (rather) long flowering period for about 6 weeks (or even more, depending...

Blunt mountain mint - native plant throughout eastern north America - grows  in open moist woods, meadows, and bogs. It makes spreading clumps with bright green very aromatic leaves, and 2 foot stems are topped in mid to late summer and fall with...

Lavender blue flowers, smoky purple calyxes, deeply dissected gray leaves with fine texture. 'Blue Jean Baby' is a vigorous, shorter and manageable new variety with good shape. One of the top performers in Chicago Botanic Garden trials, gaining 5...

Long flowering perennial with unique structure, pollinator friendly and low care plant. Suitable for smaller gardens or public spaces. 'Little Spire' is much lower and compact than species, usually reaches 2' x 2-3', stems are upright, side branches may...

Mountain Fleece is pretty much unknown plant in Midwest, but we expect this this will change. Hardy and easy to grow perennial from Himalaya, 3-4' tall and wide, more or less groundcovering clumps with 6" long spikes of crimson red flowers from June to...

Compact cultivar with dense ground covering growth, golden leaves, spikes of red flowers in late summer. Usually 2.5' tall x 1.5-2' wide clumps, that slowly spread wide to groundcovering mounds.Flowers from June/July to September. Full sun to half shade,...

Sterile, non-spreading and well-behaved perennial from China. Unique foliage with gray-silver chevron pattern, emerging very dark burgundy-red, with changing color through out the season. 'Red Dragon' forms vase-shaped clumps and is a relatively fast...

Cultivar 'Painter's Palette' has cream-white splish-splash painting on its leaves, with a little pink tint on the nodes and tiny red flowers/bracts (instead of white flowers of the wild form). This perennial is clonal, since it is vegetatively...

Quite common perennial plant in the wild, but not so common in our yards. Forms nice bushy clumps of green leaves with thin flowering stalks above the leaves. Flowers are small, green-white, and generally insignificant. The reason why this native...

Ground covering fern, tough, with firm leaves that don't break up easily. Vigorous and slowly spreading wide. Underused and not much known in horticultural trade. P. decursive-pinnata is a deciduous, upright fern with beautifully tapered, feathery...

Also called rock pink, small succulent perennial, native to Central southern United States (see the detail distribution on USDA map.) Usually 6-8" tall x 2-4" wide, 1" purple-pink flowers open around noon and stay open till mid afternoon, succulent...

Excellent vertical flowering plant for dry, sunny or partially-shaded areas. The big, fuzzy leaves are gray-green, stay at the ground level and are evergreen. The upright eye-catching stems are topped with bare clusters of big pale yellow flowers...

Most likely unknown in USA, charming and non-spreading perennial, native to Central, southeastern Europe and Asia. Forms quite dense clumps of green at the ground, toothed leaves, reddish and nearly bare stems carry small pink flower in clusters. Size 4'...

Cultivar (possibly hybrid of 2 native species) with 1.5" raspberry pink flowers and darker eye. Blooming Time: mid summer end of June - July/August; blooms for six weeks (deadheading prolongs the blooming season and prevents unwanted seedlings)Size: 3-3...