Growing Requirements
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American Holly
Price range: $8.00 through $16.00 Select 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.
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Blue Sedge
$6.00 Add 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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Eastern Red Columbine
$8.00 Select 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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Maid of the Mist or Thick-leaved Meadowrue
$8.00 Add to basketMaid of the Mist is like early meadow rue, but with thicker leaves and pinkish or maroon flowers. It is also widespread but uncommon throughout its range.
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Poverty Oatgrass
$6.00 Add 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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Purple-stem Meadow-rue
$12.00 Add to basketPurple meadow-rue is one of the tallest of the meadow-rues with its purple stems, hosts 15 species of caterpillars, and isn’t particularly favored by deer.
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Sundial Lupine
$8.00 Read moreSundial lupines are the only lupines native to the mid-atlantic and northeastern region. These are the host plants for the endangered Karner Blue butterfly.
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White-tinted Sedge
$6.00 Add to basketIt would seem that no matter what you throw at it, this tough little sedge can handle it.
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Whorled Milkweed
$8.00 Add to basketWho could believe in the prophecies … that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau