Wetland Plants

Bog saxifrage is a pleasingly odd kind of plant. One that we used to glance upon occasionally, with its almost succulent rosette leaves and floweri...

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 (...

Straightbeaked buttercup (sometimes called swamp buttercup) is a terrific spring hoverfly plant (although lots of small native bees visit it as wel...

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.), ...

Sedges can be enigmatic and inscrutable for many of us. There's such an expansive diversity of species that it can be a bit confounding not only to...