Perennial Plant of the Year 2011 This native perennial offers two seasons of beauty. The spring brings clusters of light blue flowers on top of the feathery foliage. In the fall the foliage turns a beautiful bright gold.

Baby blue star-shaped flowers that form in clusters atop strong stems and thick glossy foliage. Easy to grow and requires little maintenance, making this a nice, worry free perennial for anyone.

Have a dry, rocky, poor soil, sunny area that nothing wants to grow in? Pussytoes make a great ground cover for that kind of area! Short stems arise from the basal foliage in spring while the rest of the year the foliage is a nice soft silvery green.

Compound distinctive foliage with dark stems make this an attractive plant throughout the growing season. Blooms are tiny white to greenish white flowers in small clusters on stems above the foliage.

A shade ground cover with large veined leaves that spreads slowly by rhizomes to become a nice full colony! Deer tend to stay away from American Ginger making it a great choice for this area.

Awesome native plant! Perfect for sunny wet areas. Attractive clusters of tiny pink flowers attract pollinators, specifically being a larval host for Monarch butterflies.

A white flowering native milkweed that has thin needle-like leaves. Most know the pink and orange milkweeds, while this is a lesser known species it is still a Monarch larval host! Add it to your other milkweeds for a mix of color!

Nice hardy yet delicate looking feathery fronds. Very tough and easy to grow.

White Baptisia bears the same pea like flowers of False Indigo except... you guessed it they're white! Growing with more of a shrubby habit typically to about 3 feet with light green foliage. A long lived perennial that has a few season of interest.

Striking yellow blooms will light up any garden! The flowers are reminiscent of Lupines. A long bloom time and pollinator magnet .

Blooming in early spring this native bulb produces light to dark blue violet star shaped flowers. Blooming from about April to June and then going dormant in the summer heat.

A great ground cover that thrives in dry shade! Use this as a lawn replacement or plant under trees to keep the weeds out! Fine green foliage that arches beautifully.

A good choice to accent wet shady areas with nice blue green foliage. Stays compact only getting 1 foot tall and the same wide. Its an evergreen so interest will be maintained throughout the year.

A low growing sedge with thick silvery blue blades that will provide year round color with its' evergreen foliage. A beautiful shade plant that can be utilized along water features, in mass, along walkways, and woodland settings.

A nice low growing sedge that produces narrow light green foliage. Common name comes from the star shaped inflorescence that are quite attractive. 

A fantastic sedge for rain gardens, stream bank restoration, or wet meadows. This species loves water, even shallow standing water. The bright green foliage is narrow and forms clumps (hence the common name tussocks).

This native grass is probably the most tolerant of some shade. Produces handsome drooping seed heads that move in the slightest breeze. Grows 2-5' tall

White tubular flowers emerge in late summer and bloom through fall. Flowers will bloom in spikes from bottom to top. The blooms are reminiscent of a turtles head, which is where it gets its common name from. The Foliage is a dark glossy green. 

loads of blue airy flowers late summer till frost! An easy to grow late bloomer the pollinators love! This is a fast spreading plant making it great for naturalized areas. A gorgeous show of light blue adds a different color for late season plants. Prefer

Great tall native perennial that can handle all sorts of conditions.

Perennial Plant of the Year 1992 An easy to grow compact perennial standing at 18-24 inches tall. Muted yellow daisy like flowers sit atop airy foliage. Has a nice long bloom time from late June to October.

This hybrid of the native dicentra eximia has cherry red flowers. Nice finely cut grey green foliage stay attractive all summer. Grows 12-18" tall and wide