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Aquilegia canadensis (eastern columbine)
$8.00Eastern 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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Cerastium arvense ssp. stricta (large-flowered meadow chickweed)
$8.00This native chickweed has showy fragrant blooms in spring and is drought tolerant once established.
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Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
$8.00 – $25.00The native wild strawberry provides delicious, edible fruit, and its dense spreading growth helps to suppress weeds as a living mulch.
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Hylotelephium telephioides (Allegheny stonecrop)
$8.00The Allegheny stonecrop or live-forever is a tough, drought, heat tolerant mounding plant that grows quickly and puts on a show of blooms in the fall.
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Hypoxis hirsuta (eastern yellow star grass)
$6.00Blue-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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Lupinus perennis (sundial lupines)
$8.00Sundial 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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Salvia lyrata (lyreleaf sage)
$6.00Lyreleaf sage is the only sage known to be native to southeastern Pennsylvania. This evergreen attracts pollinators and does well in a native lawn.
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Silene caroliniana subsp. wherryi (wild pink)
$15.00Wherry’s catchfly or wild pink is a great choice for rock gardens or borders along walkways. Drought tolerant once established, you won’t need to worry about this one.
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Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)
$8.00Seed grown New England asters, 2nd year plants potted in 4-inch deep pots, ready to be planted and grown. These are one of the PA keystone species.
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Thalictrum dasycarpum (purple meadow-rue)
$12.00Purple 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.