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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Ironweed (Vernonia Fasciculata) -
Gray's Sedge (Carex Grayi) -
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon Digitalis) -
Cup Plant (Silphium Perfoliatum) -
Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista Fasciculata) -
Ozark Bluestar (Amsonia Illustris) -
Prairie Pussytoes (Antennaria Neglecta) -
Big Bluestem (Andropogon Gerardii) -
White Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) -
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera Biennis) -
Blue Grama (Bouteloua Gracilis) -
Obedient Plant (Physostegia Virginiana) -
Leatherwood (Dirca Palustris) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
Wild Quinine (Parthenium Integrifolium) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca)