Growing Requirements
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Allegheny Stonecrop
$10.00 Add to cartThe 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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Common Cinquefoil
$8.00 Read moreCute 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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Eastern Columbine ‘Little Lanterns’
$6.50 Add to cartEastern 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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Eastern Shooting Star
$10.00 Add to cartYour wish for a beautiful native garden is granted with this midland shooting star!
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Large-Flowered American Field Chickweed
$12.00 Read moreThis native chickweed has showy fragrant blooms in spring and is drought tolerant once established.
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Mayapple
$12.00 Add to cartThis 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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Meadow Beauty
$15.00 Add to cart"The scarlet leaves and stem of the rhexia, some time out of flower, make almost as bright a patch in the meadow now as the flowers did. Its seed vessels are perfect little cream pitchers of graceful form." – Thoreau
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New Engalnd Aster
$14.00 Add to cart“Friend butterfly, friend butterfly,
go fetch them one and all!
I’m waiting here to welcome every guest;
And tell them it is Michaelmas,
and soon the leaves will fall,
But I think Autumn sunshine is the best!”– Cicely Mary Barker
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Poverty Oatgrass
$6.50 Add to cartOne 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 Meadowrue
$15.00 Add to cartPurple 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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Spring Beauty
Price range: $5.00 through $8.00 Select 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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Wild Strawberry
$10.00 Add to cartThe native wild strawberry provides delicious, edible fruit, and its dense spreading growth helps to suppress weeds as a living mulch.