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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Black Chokeberry (Aronia Melanocarpa) -
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus Virginicus) -
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus Heterolepis) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Old Field Goldenrod (Solidago Nemoralis) -
Hoary Vervain (Verbena Stricta) -
Deflexed Bottle-brush Sedge (Carex Retrorsa) -
Arrowleaf Aster (Symphyotruchum Urophyllum) -
Balsam Ragwort (Packera Paupercula) -
Rosy Sedge (Carex Rosea) -
Red Baneberry (Actaea Rubra) -
Prairie Dock (Silphium Terebinthinaceum) -
Ox Eye (Heliopsis Helianthoides) -
Ninebark (Physocarpus Opulifolius) -
Ivory Sedge (Carex Eburnea) -
Graceful Sedge (Carex Gracillima) -
Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata) -
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum Lateriflorum) -
Early Figwort (Scrophularia Lanceolata) -
Prairie Sage (Artemisia Ludoviciana) -
June Grass (Koeleria Macrantha) -
American Plum (Prunus americana) -
Prairie Brome (Bromus Kalmii) -
Nodding Fescue (Festuca Subverticillata)