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) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus Maximiliani) -
Leatherwood (Dirca Palustris) -
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) -
Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) -
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus Virginicus) -
Red Baneberry (Actaea Rubra) -
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia Fulgida) -
Old Field Goldenrod (Solidago Nemoralis) -
Arrowleaf Aster (Symphyotruchum Urophyllum) -
Prairie Sage (Artemisia Ludoviciana) -
Prairie Dock (Silphium Terebinthinaceum) -
Big-leaf Aster (Eurybia Macrophylla) -
Rosy Sedge (Carex Rosea) -
Early Figwort (Scrophularia Lanceolata) -
Ox Eye (Heliopsis Helianthoides) -
Ninebark (Physocarpus Opulifolius) -
Ivory Sedge (Carex Eburnea) -
Deflexed Bottle-brush Sedge (Carex Retrorsa) -
Balsam Ragwort (Packera Paupercula) -
Graceful Sedge (Carex Gracillima) -
False Aster (False Aster)