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Common sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Perennial
3-5'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Rain Garden, Meadow, Naturalize, Flower Cutting
Creeping phlox
Phlox stolonifera
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
5-9
Perennial
0.5-1'
0.5-1.5'
Light Water Soil
Loam
Use for
Groundcover, Shade Garden, Rain Garden, Wildlife Garden, Pollinator Garden
Dwarf crested iris
Iris cristata
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-9
Perennial
0.5-0.75'
0.5-1'
Light Water Soil
Loam
Use for
Naturalize, Groundcover, Showy Bloom
Foam flower
Tiarella cordifolia
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
0.75-1'
1-2'
Light Water Soil
Loam
Use for
Groundcover, Shade Garden
Great Solomon's seal
Polygonatum biflorum
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Perennial
1-3'
1-1.5'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Rain Garden, Wildlife Garden, Shade Garden
Interrupted fern
Osmunda claytoniana
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Perennial
2-3'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Loam, Sand
Use for
Rain Garden, Shade Garden
Large flower tickseed
Coreopsis grandiflora
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
1.5-2.5'
1-1.5'
Light Water Soil
Loam, Sand
Use for
Pollinator Garden
Moss phlox
Phlox subulata
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-9
Perennial
0.25-0.5'
1-2'
Light Water Soil
Loam, Sand
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Groundcover, Slopes, Erosion Control
Common yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-9
Perennial
2-3'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Loam, Sand
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Wildlife Garden, Naturalize, Meadow
Dense blazing star
Liastris spicata
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Perennial
2-4'
0.75-1'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Rain Garden, Flower Cutting, Showy Bloom
Eastern bottlebrush grass
Elymus hystrix
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
5-9
Perennial
2.5-3'
2.5-3'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Meadow, Rain Garden, Fall Interest, Winter Interest, Erosion Control, Wildlife Garden
Fringed sedge
Carex crinita
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Semi-evergreen
3-4'
3-4'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Rain Garden, Shade Garden, Wetland Planting, Erosion Control, Naturalize, Groundcover
Great blue lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
2-3'
1-1.5'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Rain Garden, Shade Garden, Naturalize, Flower Cutting
Joe pye weed
Eutrochium purpureum
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
5-7'
2-4'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Pollinator Garden, Rain Garden, Meadow, Flower Cutting, Wildlife Garden
Little bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-9
Perennial
2-4'
1.5-2'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Meadow, Naturalize, Wildlife Garden, Erosion Control, Pollinator Garden, Slopes, Water-Wise Planting, Restoration
New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-8
Perennial
3-6'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Rain Garden, Meadow, Naturalize, Pollinator Garden
Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
Semi-Evergreen
Light Water Soil
Use for
Dutchman's breeches
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
-
-'
-'
Light Water Soil
Use for
False aster
Boltonia asteroides
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-10
Perennial
5-6'
2-4'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Naturalize, Meadow, Pollinator Garden, Rain Garden, Flower Cutting
Golden ragwort
Packera aurea
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
3-8
Perennial
0.5-2.5'
0.5-1.5'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Rain Garden, Naturalize, Shade Garden, Groundcover
Indian grass
Sorghastrum nutans
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
3-5'
1-2'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam
Use for
Meadow, Wildlife Garden, Fall Interest, Winter Interest, Erosion Control, Restoration
Lanceleaf coreopsis
Coreopsis lancelota
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-9
Perennial
2-3'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Wildlife Garden, Pollinator Garden, Meadow, Naturalize, Erosion Control
Marginal wood fern
Dryopteris marginalis
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-8
Perennial
1.5-2'
1.5-2'
Light Water Soil
Clay, Loam, Sand
Use for
Rain Garden, Shade Garden, Naturalize, Winter Interest
New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
Hardiness
Life cycle
Height
Spread
4-8
Perennial
3-5'
2-3'
Light Water Soil
Loam, Sand
Use for
Erosion Control, Naturalize, Meadow, Pollinator Garden