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Allegheny Spurge
Pachysandra procumbens
Native to central Pennsylvania
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 6-12"
Blooms: May-June
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: An elegant, clumping groundcover without the invasive properties of its common Asian cousin. Fragrant spikes of cobweb white flowers peep shyly above almost evergreen leaves. Tolerates drought and clay.

Autumn Phlox
Phlox paniculata
Native to southeastern New York
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 30-40"
Blooms: August
Color: deep pink
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Culture and Notes: Tolerant of a wide range, but happiest in moist, organic soils. Lush heads of deep pink flowers attract industrious bees and hummingbirds. An attractive textural combination with taller grasses and sedges.

Barbara's Buttons
Marshallia grandiflora
Native to and endangered in Pennsylvania
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 10 - 14"
Blooms: early summer
Color: rose pink to lavender
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Culture and Notes: Glossy narrow leaves that send up dozens of single flowered stems reminiscent of an intricate lace doily. Prefers the moist to wet soils of bogs and wet meadows. A butterfly magnet.

Blazing Star
Liatris spicata
Native to central Massachusetts and southern Connecticut
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-4'
Blooms: summer
Color: pink-purple
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Culture and Notes: Preferring full sun and tolerating a variety of soil conditions, Liatris’ fine foliage and spikes of purple flowers perform a great mid-summer show. A great cut flower known for its high nectar content and butterfly-attracting powers. An excellent choice for a garden or naturalized meadow.

Blue False Indigo
Baptisia australis
Native to Connecticut and central Massachusetts
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-4'
Blooms: May-June
Color: violet blue
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Culture and Notes: Proud spikes of pea-shaped flowers top decorative foliage. Grows well in slightly acidic to neutral soil. Native to moist woodlands and grasslands. Do not disturb once establishe

Bluejacket Spiderwort
Tradescantia ohiensis
Native to central Massachusetts and Connecticut
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 24-40"
Blooms: June
Color: shades of violet blue
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Culture and Notes: Three petaled blooms in shades of violet blue, with an occasional rosy surprise. Long, blue-green leaves suggest cool relief on a hot summer day. Average to dry soil. Loves afternoon shade.

Bride's Feathers
Aruncus dioicus
Native to eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 3-6'
Blooms: late spring, early summer
Color: creamy white
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Culture and Notes: A great source of pollen and nectar, this plant trembles with bees, beetles and other pollinators. Plumes can grow up to 12”, making this a nice alternative to Astilbe. Prefers dappled shade or morning sun and rich moisture-retentive soil. Do NOT cut back in the fall.

Carolina Thermopsis
Thermopsis caroliniana
Native to central and eastern Massachusetts
Light: sun
Height: 18-24"
Blooms: June
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: A striking, sunny yellow lupine with bright green palm-shaped leaves. Smiles in well drained soil, but sulks if it’s too wet.

Celandine Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum
Native to western Pennsylvania
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 12-18"
Blooms: May
Color: yellow
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Culture and Notes: Golden goblets are held aloft just above clumps of shallowly lobed leaves. Fruit ripens into an oblong, fuzzy capsule, while stems form substantial clumps. Self seeds happily in moist, organic soil.

Creeping Mint
Meehania cordata
Native to Pennsylvania
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 4-10"
Blooms: spring
Color: violet to white
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Culture and Notes: A low creeping woodland groundcover that prefers damp shady spots with filtered morning sun and fertile soil. A perfect native alternative to ajuga or lamium.

Creeping Phlox
phlox stolonifera
Native to Columbia County, New York
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 6-10"
Blooms: May-June
Color: pink to violet blue
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Culture and Notes: A beautiful semi-evergreen woodland groundcover which prefers moist, slightly acidic soil. Great for naturalizing in a native lawn.

Downy Skullcap
Scutellaria incana
Native and endangered in New York
Light: sun to light shade
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: mid to late summer
Color: violet blue
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Culture and Notes: One of the showiest of the skullcaps with a clumping habit. The tubular violet flowers have a flared lower lip and a hooded protruding upper lip. Great for borders, meadows or woodlands. Endangered in New York.

Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
Native to Pennsylvania
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 4-8"
Blooms: spring
Color: violet, occassionally white
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Culture and Notes: This adaptable plant does best in fertile soil with a few hours of direct sun. It blooms little flowers with a light colored crest on each petal. Smaller and more shade tolerant than it’s larger cousin, the Blue Flag Iris, it makes a great groundcover in shady, woodland areas or floodplains.

Eastern Shooting Star
Dodecatheon meadia
Native to central New York
Light: sun to light shade
Height: 8-14"
Blooms: spring
Color: pale pink to white
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Culture and Notes: A charming spring ephemeral of the primrose family that relies on spring rains for its fast succulent growth. Similar in flower to a florists Cyclamen, older many-crowned stems are an amazing sight. Can be planted in woodlands or rock gardens, wherever it will get sufficient spring moisture. Dormant by mid-summer.

Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
Native to southern Pennsylvania
Light: part shade to sun
Height: 12-24"
Blooms: June-July
Color: lavender
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Culture and Notes: Thrives in part shade and poor, well drained soil, but is adaptable to a wide range of conditions. The flowers are miniature petunias in the softest of lavender. Long blooming and, although not assertive, it makes a lovely, little groundcover.

Jacob's Ladder
Polemonium reptans
Native to New York
Light: part sun to light shade
Height: 10-16"
Blooms: spring
Color: light blue
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Culture and Notes: This uncommon plant native to New York produces ladder-rung-like leaves that help form much branched flower stems that hold the blooms in loose sprays over the foliage. A great butterfly attractor, prefers moist, wooded areas.

Labrador Violet
Viola labradorica
Native to southern Vermont and New Hampshire
Light: sun to shade
Height: 3-6"
Blooms: April-May
Color: dark violet
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Culture and Notes: Foliage emerges burgundy and then slowly fades to dark purple-green. An excellent groundcover for part sun to shady garden sites. Makes a great addition to native lawns.

Michigan Lily
Lilium michiganense
Native to southern Vermont and New Hampshire
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 4-6'
Blooms: July-August
Color: orange-red
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Culture and Notes: Almost identical to our native Turk’s cap lily, with its large, recurved bells of freckled orange-red. Flowers best in sunny, moist - damp soil, but tolerates a little light shade. Will spread to form a very loose colony. Hummingbirds love this one.

Moss Phlox
Phlox subulata
Native to central Massachusetts, Connecticut and central New York
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-6"
Blooms: May-June
Color: pink
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Culture and Notes: Make your lawn more interesting with spreading mats of evergreen leaves that will literally blaze with color in the spring. Prefers dry, sandy soil in full sun. Wait two weeks after flower and then mow your lawn as usual. Also a great border plant in formal rock gardens.

Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
Native to Finger Lakes Region of New York
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 12-16"
Blooms: late June
Color: medium pink
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Culture and Notes: Excellent rock garden plant. Interplant with other native perennials because the allium will go dormant after flowering. Grows well in most garden soils and is drought tolerant. Mild onion-flavored bulbs are excellent fresh or cooked. Produces a beautiful nodding spray of pink flowers.

Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
Native to central New York and Pennsylvania
Light: sun to part shade
Height: 24-36"
Blooms: June-July
Color: gold
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Culture and Notes: Long blooming, carefree and a cheerful staple of the sunny garden. Prolific golden daisies with chocolate brown centers are visited by butterflies, while its seeds are relished by chipmunks, birds and others. Prefers moist organic soil in sun, but will tolerate clay, drought or part shade.

Pink Coreopsis
Coreopsis rosea
Native to central/eastern Massachusetts, rare and endangered in New York.
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 1'
Blooms: July-August
Color: soft pink with yellow eyes
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Culture and Notes: Forms dense stands of thin stems, covered with needle-like whorled leaves and half-inch pink daisy flowers, bloom for over four weeks. Early American settlers called coreopsis “tickseed” because of its ability to repel bedbugs, fleas and ticks. For this reason they often put coreopsis in their mattresses.

Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum
Native to New York
Light: sun
Height: 10-16"
Blooms: spring
Color: pink
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Culture and Notes: Prairie Smoke forms mats of small hairy rosettes that send up stiff stalks with a cluster of cupped blooms on each. Doubles as a semi-evergreen ground cover for full sun and rock gardens.

Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Native to southeastern New York
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 2-3'
Blooms: July-August
Color: dark rose petals with orange-brown center
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Culture and Notes: A great butterfly magnet that is easy to grow in average garden soil and is drought tolerant. Coneflower is a summer garden staple. In Germany, Purple Coneflower, is used to make over 140 different medicines.

Queen-of-the-Prairie
Filipendula rubra
Native to central Massachusetts, Connecticut and western New York
Light: sun to part sun
Height: 3-5'
Blooms: July
Color: pink
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Culture and Notes: A regal plant with rich pink cotton candy colored flowers that resemble Astilbe. Tends to spread and may not be a good in a manicured garden. Plant with tall grasses to hide foliage die back after flowering.

Rose Mallow
Hibiscus mosheutos
Native to central/eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut
Light: sun
Height: 3-6'
Blooms: August
Color: white to pink white a dark center
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Culture and Notes: Graceful three to four-inch wide flowers look more like Hawaii than the Berkshires. Slow to emerge in the spring (often not until late May) these large flowers add tons of bright color to the garden. Plant with tall grasses to hide foliage die back after flowering.

Scarlet Bee Balm or Oswego Tea
Monarda didyma
Native to central Massachusetts, southeastern New York and Connecticut
Light: sun to light shade
Height: 3-4'
Blooms: June-August
Color: scarlet to crimson red
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Culture and Notes: Happy in moist, fertile soil boasting enormous red flowers that bloom for 4-6 weeks. To avoid self-sowing, cut back after flowering. Native Americans used the leaf tea as a digestive aid.

Trumpet Vine (vine)
Campsis radicans
Native to central Massachusetts
Light: sun
Height: to 35'
Blooms: July-August
Color: orange
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Culture and Notes: Beloved by hummingbirds and long-tongued moths for its clusters of fiery orange-red flowers. Exuberant vine clambers over fences, scrambles down banks and combat-crawls through lawns. Prefers a near neutral pH, although it will thrive in almost any soil. Cut back in early spring to restrain growth and encourage blooms.

Twinleaf
Jeffersonia diphylla
Native to New York and New Jersey
Light: shade
Height: 12-16"
Blooms: early spring
Color: white
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Culture and Notes: This plant prefers a bright spot in the spring yet out of the sun of summer. It’s pretty eight-petaled flowers form an amazing large urn full of cinnamon-toned seeds; a sweet woodland groundcover for any garden. Twinleaf is threatened in New York and endangered in New Jersey.

Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica
Native to eastern and central Massachusetts and moist woods of New York
Light: part sun to shade
Height: 14-20"
Blooms: spring
Color: pink changing to light blue
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Culture and Notes: An easy species; the largest and most robust bluebell and the one most suffering from wild collection. Prefers moist, well-drained soil, with spring sun and summer shade. Virginia Bluebells are protected in New York.

Whorled Coreopsis
Coreopsis verticillata
Native to eastern and central Massachusetts and moist woods of New York
Light: sun
Height: 12-28"
Blooms: June
Color: golden yellow
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Culture and Notes: Sunny wheels of gold adorn dense clumps of fine, feathery foliage. Tolerates almost any soil, except wet. Full sun is preferred, but can take a little afternoon shade.

Woodland Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Native to central and southern New York and northern Vermont
Light: part shade to shade
Height: 6-12"
Blooms: May
Color: lavender blue
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Culture and Notes: Happiest in dappled shade, this ethereally lovely plant grows in almost any soil. When combined with Mitella, Tiarella or Heuchera, it seems as if the summer sky has descended to the forest floor. Will moderately self-seed.

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