Buckthorn Replacements
Native alternatives to invasive buckthorn that provide similar structure, wildlife value, and year-round interest without destroying your ecosystem.
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Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) -
Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis Palmata) -
Pretty Sedge (Carex Woodii) -
White Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) -
Poke Milkweed (Asclepias Exaltata) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) -
American Ipecac (Porteranthus stipulatus) -
Virgina Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum Virginianum) -
Wild Ginger (Asarum Canadense) -
Cream Gentian (Gentiana Flavida) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
Obedient Plant (Physostegia Virginiana) -
Mad Dog Skullcap (Scutellaria Lateriflora) -
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia Laciniata) -
Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata) -
Solomon Plume (Maianthemum Racemosum) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Yellow Pimpernel (Taenidia Integerrima) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Leatherwood (Dirca Palustris)