< 1ft
12 inches or less
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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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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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Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)
$5.00 – $12.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageEdible spring ephemeral that provides an early food source for pollinators, including the specialist spring beauty miner.
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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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Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
$8.00 – $25.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe native wild strawberry provides delicious, edible fruit, and its dense spreading growth helps to suppress weeds as a living mulch.
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Hypoxis hirsuta (eastern yellow star grass)
$6.00Add to basketBlue-eyed grass’s golden-flowered cousin, the eastern yellow star grass is a welcome volunteer in gardens with grass-like leaves and bright blooms.
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Pachysandra procumbens (Allegheny spurge)
Read moreInvasive Japanese pachysandra is out, and the American native Pachysandra procumbens is in, with far more attractive foliage and showy fragrant blooms.
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Phemeranthus teretifolius (Appalachian fameflower)
$12.00Add to basketDon’t let the ephemeral nature of the individual flowers fool you – this succulent blooms from spring through fall.
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Potentilla canadensis (running five-fingers)
$6.00Add to basketCute yellow-flowering ground cover that doubles a native lawn alternative that can grow in a wide variety of conditions, including full sun and drought.
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Salvia lyrata (lyreleaf sage)
$6.00Add to basketLyreleaf sage is the only sage known to be native to southeastern Pennsylvania. This evergreen attracts pollinators and does well in a native lawn.
