Winter Interest
Winter is a season too! Give yourself and your neighbors something beautiful to look at while supporting overwintering wildlife. These native plants refuse to disappear when the snow falls—striking seed heads, persistent foliage, colorful bark, and bold architecture transform the winter garden from barren to beautiful while providing critical food for birds and shelter for native bees and beneficial insects hibernating in hollow stems.
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Gray's Sedge (Carex grayi) -
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon Digitalis) -
Side-Oats Grama (Bouteloua Curtipendula) -
Common Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliatum) -
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea) -
Ozark Bluestar (Amsonia Illustris) -
Cup Plant (Silphium Perfoliatum) -
Wild Quinine (Parthenium Integrifolium) -
Calico Beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus) -
Prairie Pussytoes (Antennaria Neglecta) -
Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) -
Big Bluestem (Andropogon Gerardii) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Hoary Vervain (Verbena Stricta) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
White Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) -
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
Obedient Plant (Physostegia Virginiana) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica)