Achillea 'Summer wine'
common name: Yarrow
height: 1' - 2'
flower type: corymb
flower color: Red, Burgundy Red
origin: North America, Europe, Asia
notes: Does poorly in wet sites or in heavy, poorly drained soil. Low maintenance, tolerates deer, drought, dry soil, and air pollution
Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
common name: Giant Hyssop
height: 2 '- 3'
flower type: spadix
flower color: Lavender-blue
origin: The Americas
Abelia Grandiflora
common name: Glossy Abelia
height: 6'
flower type: Bell-shaped, fragrant
flower color: White flowers with hints of pink
origin: Unknown
notes: It's a very low maintenance plant. It also tolerates erosion.
Allium Senescens
common name: German garlic
height: 6"-12"
flower type: round ball
flower color: Lavender, pink
origin: Exotic (Africa, Asia, Australia, or Europe)
Amsonia hubruchtii 'blue star'
common name: Blue star
height: 2' - 3'
flower type: spike
flower color: blue (sometimes green)
origin: Arkansas, and Oklahoma
Asclepias incarnata
common name: Swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, swamp silkweed, or white Indian hemp
height: 3' - 4'
flower type: umbels
flower color: rose, pink
origin: North America
Asclepias syriaca
common name: Common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed,
height: 5'
flower type: corymb
flower color: white, pink
origin: Canada and US east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies
notes: Critical plant for Monarch butterflies
Asclepias tuberosa
common name: Butterfly weed
height: 1' - 3'
flower type:
flower color: orange, yellow
origin: Eastern and southwestern North America
notes: Critical plant for Monarch butterflies
Baptisia australis
common name: Wild indigo, False indigo
height: 3' - 4'
flower type: spike
flower color: indigo blue
origin: Midwest / east coast
notes: Attracts butterflies, bees, hummingbirds
Cimicifuga racemosa
common name: Black cohosh
height: 3' - 8'
flower type:
flower color: white
origin: East Coast
Ageratum houstonianum
common name: Ageratum, Blue Mistflower
height: 1' - 2'
flower type: Cyme
flower color: blue
origin: East Coast
notes: Can spread rapidly
Echinacea
common name: Coneflower
height: 2' - 2.5'
flower type: composite (disc & ray flowers)
flower color: white, red, orange, yellow, violet, Pink
origin: North America and Europe
notes: These flowers are hardy and easy to maintain. They come in many color varieties.
Eupatorium maculatum
common name: Joe Pye weed
height: 5'+
flower type: composite (disc flowers)
flower color: Lavender-pink
origin: The Americas
notes: Thrives in wetlands and is more tolerant than other joe pye varieties.
Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate'
common name: Boneset
height: 3' -6'
flower type:
flower color: white, red, green (it happens)
origin: East Coast
notes: Typically found in woodland areas. Prolific self seeder.
Eurybia divaricatus
common name: White Wood Aster
height: 12" - 18"
flower type: composite (disc & ray flowers)
flower color: white, red, yellow, green (it happens)
origin: Eastern US & Canada
notes: Can tolerate partial to full shade.
Gaillardia grandiflora
common name: Blanket Flower
height: 12" - 18"
flower type: composite (rays & disk flowers)
flower color: red, yellow, green
origin: Western and Northern United States
notes: This flower has fuzzy green leaves.
Geranium maculatum
common name: Cranesbill
height: 1' - 2'
flower color: blue, violet
origin: East Coast
Liatris spicata
common name: Blazing star
height: 2' - 4'
flower type: spike
flower color: violet
origin: Eastern US.
Monarda didyma
common name: Scarlet beebalm
height: 2' -3.5'
flower type: composite
flower color: red
origin: Northeast US
Monarda fistulosa
common name: Wild bergamont
height: 2' - 4'
flower color: lavender
origin: The Americas
notes: poor in crowded gardens. native to dry soils on prairies, dry rocky woods and glade margins, unplanted fields and along roads and railroads. attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. use for herbs, to neutralize, and rain gardens.
Nepeta racemosa
common name: Catmint
height: 2' - 2.5'
flower type: spike
flower color: violet
origin: Exotic (Africa, Asia, Australia, or Europe)
notes: full sun to part shade, dry to medium, no serious insect or disease issues.
Podophyllum peltatum
common name: Mayapple
height: 1'
flower type: single
flower color: white, yellow
origin: Eastern North America south to Texas
Polygonatum 'variegatum'
common name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
height: 2' - 3'
flower type: spike
flower color: white
origin: All of America
Pycnanathemum muticum
common name: Short-toothed Mountain Mint
height: 2' - 3'
flower type: corymb
flower color: pink/green
origin: United States
notes: Excellent nectar source for native pollinators
Rudbeckia
common name: Rudbeckia
height: 2' - 3'
flower type: composite (disc & ray flowers)
flower color: orange, yellow
origin: Southeastern U.S.
Solidago rugosa
common name: Goldenrod
height: 3' - 4'
flower type: panicle
flower color: yellow
origin: Eastern & Central US
notes: Late season nectar source for pollinators
Stokesia leavis
common name: Stokes' aster
height: 1' - 2'
flower type: corymb
flower color: blue, violet
origin: Southeastern United States
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
common name: Aromatic Aster / Aster “Raydon’s favorite”
height: 2' - 3'
flower type: corymb
flower color: blue, violet
origin: Central and eastern US