A neat form that has leaves and flowers with a rich, anise scent, this species is a well-behaved goldenrod that does well in garden settings . A tea can be brewed from its leaves and dried flowers. It is easily grown and tolerates poor, dry soils and light shade, but performs best in full sun.

A beautiful plant in flower, it is an effective groundcover in dry, sunny conditions and is often used in native landscapes, rock gardens, butterfly gardens and meadow plantings. One of the smallest of the goldenrods, the central stem is reddish or grey-green and covered with short white hairs.  It can colonize by creeping rhizomes (underground rootstalk) and self-seeding. Easily grown.

A highly ornamental bunchgrass with fine-textured foliage that forms dense mounds with slender blue-green stems. It becomes striking mahogany-red in the fall with white, shining seed tufts. Drought tolerant, it performs best in full sun.  Also, is a host plant to several butterfly species (skippers) including the common wood nymph.

A self-seeding annual or biennial plant with silvery-green stems and narrow leaves.  Also known as rabbit tobacco.  A host plant for the American Lady butterfly.  It is usually found in openings, woodlands, coastal dunes, sandy pinelands, roadsides, and disturbed areas. Most abundantly found in sand. 

An erect annual with flat-topped clusters of pink-lavender flower heads, it has a faint camphor fragrance. This plant adds color to marsh grasses at the end of the growing season. Prefers full sun and moist conditions. Its dense pinkish flowers are often used in dried flower arrangements.

A thicket-forming shrub, the flat-topped clusters of white flowers are followed by berries which turn from red to blue-black. Foliage is very colorful in fall. Grows best in well-drained, moist soil, with partial shade, but tolerates of acid soil, dry conditions and deep shade.

An attractive shrub throughout the year with red fruits that are eatn by wildlife. It grows best in damp or wet rich loamy soil, in full sun or partial shade. This species rose is generally not susceptible to the disease and insect pests that attack many hybrid roses.

Features tiny, bright yellow flowers clustered in dense plumes. It is the earliest of the goldenrods to bloom.  Easily grown in average, dry-to-medium, well-drained soil in full sun. 

Beach plum is a rounded, dense, suckering shrub found on the dunes around Long Island.  Its growth habit lends itself well to hedgerows.  It attracts many bees and other pollinators during the Spring with its copious white blooms which turn pink after pollination.  The edible purple fruits ripen from August to October, and are well suited to making jams and jellies.

A loose, open, deciduous shrub growing with a loose spreading habit. It has deciduous leaves and sweet-scented showy white flowers with lavender-to-pink tinged tubes, and 5 narrow, petal-like spreading lobes and showy stamens. Leaves turn orange to maroon in the fall. This typical wetland shrub has very sticky petals, hence the species name denoting "sticky" in Latin.