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'Dale's Strain' is a seed strain selected for the lovely silver marbling pattern and reddish veins on the leaves. It's a surprisingly stable-colored cultivar. The flowers are small, whitish and insignificant, blooming in mid to late summer. The...

Geranium sanquineum v. striatum is a tough, hardy Geranium that's native to Europe but quite popular in North American landscaping. It is often sold as 'Lancastriense.' It grows in regular mounds of fragrant, dissected leaves, with large, soft pink...

White snakeroot is one of the latest flowering wildflowers in the Midwest, providing an important late source of nectar and pollen for insects. It is quite common in some areas, bearing clusters of white flowers from early fall until regular frosts. The...

This adaptable native wildflower perennial has great wildlife benefits, and its flowers, leaves, and seedpods are all considered ornamental. It grows in bushy clumps, with pink flowers that appear for 3 weeks in late summer. Very adaptable. Very good...

Also called prairie bundleflower or prairie mimosa, this bushy native wildflower perennial has very fine, fern-like foliage and fluffy white flowers that are followed by ornamental, compound, twisted seedpods. The seedpods are dark brown-black and...

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...

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...

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,...

'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...