Local Ecotype
Plants propagated from local ecotype/provenance based on legal collection or seed obtained with known local provenance
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Carex albicans (white-tinted sedge)
$6.00It 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)
$6.00Bunny 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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Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud)
Showy, 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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Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)
$6.00 – $12.00Edible spring ephemeral that provides an early food source for pollinators, including the specialist spring beauty miner.
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Danthonia spicata (poverty oatgrass)
$6.00One 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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Ilex opaca
$8.00 – $16.00American 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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Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple, American mandrake)
$10.00This spring ephemeral groundcover has a close association with the state-vulnerable eastern box turtle, which favors its fruit and disperses it in the wild.
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Potentilla canadensis (running five-fingers)
$6.00Cute yellow-flowering ground cover that doubles a native lawn alternative that can grow in a wide variety of conditions, including full sun and drought.