Showy flowers and drought tolerance, make this a desirable plant. Numerous short stems with a mound of flowers. Colors range from deep lavender, pinks, whites and blue, with a yellow central disk. It prefers acid soils in mixed woods of hickory, pine, and oak, but can grow in open habitats. 

Drought-tolerant, nitrogen-fixing, this plant is a high-value wildlife plant and is a host plant for butterflies, a forage plant, a nectar plant for pollinators and seeds are eaten by birds and small mammals. 

American boneset, also called common boneset or American thoroughwort, is an easy growing, tall pollinator plant that loves moist, sunny areas.  It is easily identified by its opposite, stalkless leaves that are fused together across the stem, making them look like a single leaf that has been pierced by the stem.

Yarrow is an easy-to-grow garden plant. White flowers and fern-like leaves can be used in fresh or dried floral arrangements and has a pleasing fragrance. Blooming is staggered from June to August. Yarrow is known to spread, so plant it in a place you don't mind it acting as a ground cover, next to the lawn or edge of a garden is ideal. Original native yarrow has white flowers, cultivars are colorful yellow or pink. 

A favorite of pollinators with huge, domed flower heads, Hollow Joe-pye Weed is a dramatic back-of-the-border garden plant. Found near freshwater pond edges, it prefers partial shade, and moist soil. Safe for pets.

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 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.

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.