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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Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata) -
Obedient Plant (Physostegia Virginiana) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
White Tinged Sedge (Carex albicans) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) -
Old Field Goldenrod (Solidago Nemoralis) -
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus Virginicus) -
Prairie Sage (Artemisia Ludoviciana) -
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia Fulgida) -
Leatherwood (Dirca Palustris) -
Early Figwort (Scrophularia Lanceolata) -
Red Baneberry (Actaea Rubra) -
Lindley's Aster (Symphyotrichum Ciliolatum) -
False Aster (False Aster) -
Arrowleaf Aster (Symphyotruchum Urophyllum) -
Prairie Dock (Silphium Terebinthinaceum) -
Ox Eye (Heliopsis Helianthoides) -
Ninebark (Physocarpus Opulifolius) -
Balsam Ragwort (Packera Paupercula) -
Rosy Sedge (Carex Rosea) -
Gray Dogwood (Cornus Racemosa)