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Species Information

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Carolina Buckthorn

Frangula caroliniana

What makes me special:

I attract birds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators.

Warnings:

My fruit is mildly toxic.


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Cinnamon Willow Herb

Epilobium coloratum

What makes me special:

I can tolerate occasional flooding.

Warnings:

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Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

What makes me special:

I am attractive to hummingbirds.

Warnings:

Can freely self-seed and naturalize to form large colonies in optimum growing conditions

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Common Blue-eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium albidum

What makes me special:

I attract bees and flower flies.

Warnings:

Does not like to be shaded

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Common Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca

What makes me special:

I am a host plant of the Monarch Butterfly

Warnings:

All parts poisonous to mammals such as dogs, cats and horses.

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Coral Honeysuckle

Lonicera sempervirens

What makes me special:

I attract bees, butterflies and moth pollinators.

I am attract hummingbirds.

Warnings:


I am extremely flammable and should not be planted within the defensible home space.

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Cup Plant

Silphium perfoliatum

What makes me special:

Warnings:

I require space!


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Dense Blazing Star

Liatris spicata

What makes me special:

My flowers are attractive to butterflies, bees and other pollinators.
I am a host plant for the Liatris Flower Moth (Schinia sanguinea) and Liatris Borer Moth (Carmenta anthracipennis) eat the stems.
My seeds are eaten by Goldfinches.

Warnings:

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Downy Wood Mint

Blephilia ciliata

What makes me special:

My flowers attract long-tongued and short-tongued bees, bee flies, Syrphid flies, butterflies, and skippers.:
My leaves are minty and can be eaten raw or used in teas, sauces, and drinks.

Warnings:

I can be short-lived.

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Early Goldenrod

Solidago juncea

What makes me special:

Goldenrod pollen is large, sticky and an important fall source for many pollinators..
I do not cause hayfever.
I am low maintenance.

Warnings:

I can be aggressive and therefore may not be suitable for small landscape plantings

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