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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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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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Dodecatheon amethystinum (amethyst shooting star)
$10.00Read moreYour wish for a beautiful native garden is granted with this amethyst shooting star!
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Dodecatheon meadia (shooting star)
$10.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageYour wish for a beautiful native garden is granted with this midland shooting star!
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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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Hylotelephium telephioides (Allegheny stonecrop)
$8.00Add to basketThe 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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Lupinus perennis (sundial lupines)
$8.00Add to basketSundial 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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Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple, American mandrake)
$10.00Add to basketThis 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)
$6.00Add 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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Rhexia virginica (meadow beauty)
$10.00Add to basketAttractive, colorful groundcover for sunny to light shade moist gardens that attracts pollinators and provides interest through the seasons.
