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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Palm Sedge (Carex Muskingumensis) -
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera Biennis) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Narrow-leaved Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Angustifolia) -
Ironweed (Vernonia Fasciculata) -
Side-Oats Grama (Bouteloua Curtipendula) -
Wild Quinine (Parthenium Integrifolium) -
Common Boneset (Eupatorium Perfoliatum) -
Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista Fasciculata) -
Big-leaf Aster (Eurybia Macrophylla) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
Ivory Sedge (Carex Eburnea) -
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea) -
Big Bluestem (Andropogon Gerardii) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Calico Beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus) -
Ozark Bluestar (Amsonia Illustris) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica) -
Prairie Pussytoes (Antennaria Neglecta) -
Appalachian Sedge (Carex Appalachica) -
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) -
Hoary Vervain (Verbena Stricta) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca)