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. 

Adapted to coastal environments including dunes and edges of salt marshes, it can tolerate dry conditions and salt spray.  The flowers are an important energy source for monarch butterflies in their fall migration.

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.

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 large, deciduous shrub or small tree whose leaves turn reddish-purple in the fall.  A winged leaf axis distinguishes this sumac from other species. Makes good ornamental plantings and hedges because of the brilliant red fall foliage. Around 300 bird species include sumac fruit in their diet.