caterpillar host
many different caterpillars host on this species
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Aquilegia canadensis (eastern columbine)
$8.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEastern columbines of all kinds! Little Lanterns is dwarf and compact, standard (available later 2025) is what you’re used to seeing.
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Asclepias tuberosa (orange butterfly milkweed)
$10.00 – $15.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Carex albicans (white-tinted sedge)
$6.00Add to basketIt would seem that no matter what you throw at it, this tough little sedge can handle it.
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Carex glaucodea (blue sedge)
$6.00Add to basketBunny Blue Hobb isn’t the only blue sedge in town. Carex glaucodea, actually called blue sedge, commonly grows in damp shady eastern woodlands.
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Cerastium arvense ssp. stricta (large-flowered meadow chickweed)
$8.00Add to basketThis native chickweed has showy fragrant blooms in spring and is drought tolerant once established.
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Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud)
$8.00 – $18.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageShowy, easy-to-grow, spring blooming shrub that hosts 24 diverse species of caterpillars, provides nesting material for leaf-cutter bees, and feeds wildlife with its numerous seed pods.
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Corylus americana (American hazelnut)
$18.00Add to basketSeed-grown American hazelnut, also known as the American filbert, is a keystone species that produces choice edible nuts.
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Danthonia spicata (poverty oatgrass)
$6.00Add to basketOne of the top performing grasses in Cornell’s native lawn demonstration area, try replacing your exotic turf with our native Danthonia spicata.
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Hierochloe odorata (sweetgrass)
$6.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Ilex opaca
$8.00 – $16.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAmerican holly trees are extremely slow-growing trees. However, as a keystone species, it is worth growing at least one or two on your property.
