small gardens
diminutive size and/or well-behaved, making it a good option for garden spaces with limited space
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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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Carex albicans (white-tinted sedge)
$6.00Add to basketIt would seem that no matter what you throw at it, this tough little sedge can handle it.
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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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Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud)
$8.00 – $18.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageShowy, 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)
$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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Hierochloe odorata (sweetgrass)
$6.00 – $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
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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Silene caroliniana subsp. wherryi (wild pink)
$15.00Add to basketWherry’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.
