Midwest & East

Not to be confused with non-native mints such as spearmint, peppermint, pennyroyal, and others, this is our beautifully fragrant native wild mint, ...

Largely a species east of the Rocky Mountains where it occurs from New England to Florida and west into the Great Plains, swamp milkweed does occur...

This most interesting perennial aquatic plant produces a rambunctious “spray” of numerous small three-petaled white flowers arising on a tall, exte...

For our folks east of the Rocky Mountains...A gorgeously-odd creature of a plant . Tall thistle is a ridiculously prolific butterfly plant when it ...

Distantly related to the European horehound (used in candy flavoring), American water horehound is a native mint with interestingly toothed leaves,...

Subtle, and low-growing, Spanish clover isn’t a wildflower that gets a lot of attention, but this mounding annual legume is an under-acknowledged b...

Beach pea is a quite glorious sprawling perennial adapted to coastal sand and gravel substrates. It emerges clambering from driftwood strewn shores...

How can shallow, muddy, sometimes polluted ground give rise to something as beautiful as this? Woolgrass is a clumping wetland emergent species, a...

“Some decades ago, back when I worked extensively across the U.S. for Xerces, I used to spend long, languid summer days driving around, checking in...

Tall cinquefoil establishes itself in dry (sometimes craggy) soils from a sturdy anchoring taproot, wherefrom it emerges as a statuesque and magnif...

Smooth blue aster is a beautiful slow growing native fall bloomer. Long-lived and cold hardy. It’s a plant with almost continent-wide distribution,...

Short Awn Foxtail is a native grass of temporarily watery lands. It is not, as some might mistakenly believe, the non-native weedy meadow foxtail (...

Rising from wet soils along the edges of ponds, vernal pools, and slow streams, this most delicate plant threads the water’s surface with fine, gre...

Justifiably renowned as one of the most incredible pollinator magnets of any North American plant, this Midwestern and Southeastern native perennia...

Our native western (and Great Lakes region) hawthorn is a tree of exceptional uses!  While the small black fruit is edible (in haw jelly, etc.), ...

Prairie smoke is a most curious and delightful wildflower. A member of the rose family…with deeply cut foliage reminiscent of relatives such as bur...