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.

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.

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. 

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.
 

This annual vine has a fuzzy stem and attractive flowers. Fruit is a fuzzy pod containing several seeds that are black and shiny. The wild bean is also edible by birds and mammals, including humans.  The plant prefers sandy soils, but can be found in a wide range of soil textures. Best planted as a groundcover, or in a pot. 

The attractive flat-topped flower clusters and narrow leaves are distinctive. The branched stems bear long, narrow leaves, and are topped by flat, open clusters of small yellow flowers. The plant spreads by rhizomes (underground rootstalk) to form colonies. The species name means “grass-leaf”.