Among the most highly attractive of our native shrubs. An evergreen, many-stemmed, thicket-forming shrub or sometimes a small tree. It has beautiful, large, pink flower clusters.  The leaves are leathery, and glossy, and change from light-green to dark-green to purple throughout the year.

Tall, upright stalks holding striking red blooms help Cardinal Flower stand out in a garden.  Its flower structure attracts hummingbirds.  Occurring naturally in wetlands, it prefers light shade to full sun and moist conditions. 

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.

A medium to large deciduous tree with upright-arching branching and a rounded spreading crown.  Insignificant greenish flowers in spring. Female flowers produce round berry-like drupes which mature to deep reddish purple. Many birds, including quail, pheasants, woodpeckers, and cedar waxwings, eat the fruits. Ovate to oblong-ovate green leaves are coarsely toothed from midleaf to the sharply pointed tip. Undistinguished yellow fall color. Commonly used as a street tree because of its ability to withstand drought and tolerate urban environments.

A trailing, evergreen shrub, the thick, leathery leaves  are yellow-green in spring, dark-green in summer, and reddish-purple in the fall. Nodding clusters of pink or white flowers occur on bright-red stems, followed by bright-red berries that persist into winter. Long lived, but a slow grower. Has no serious disease or insect problems. Frequently seen as a ground cover in sandy areas.