Yellow Jessamine is also known as Carolina Jessamine, Evening Trumpetflower, and Poor Man’s Rope. It is an evergreen, twining vine that grows on wiry reddish-brown stems up to 20 feet long in full sun to partial shade and moist soils, producing shiny, light green leaves and fragrant, funnel-shaped, bright yellow flowers. Depending on the location, these flowers appear either singly or in clusters in late winter to early spring, and while they attract bees, their nectar is toxic to honeybees if consumed in large amounts.
Salal serves as an excellent ground cover, growing 1 to 4 feet tall with hairy stems and shiny, leathery, egg-shaped leaves. It produces pink and white, urn-shaped flowers at the ends of branches followed by dark blue berries that are a source of food for a variety of wildlife. This plant grows in full sun to shade in moist, peaty soil, requiring at least some shade, fog, or rain during the summer, as direct sunlight can cause scorch on the plant.
This is an annual wildflower that typically grows 12 to 18 inches tall, with a leafy base and hairy, branched stems. The stunning, daisy-like flower heads bloom from May to August and feature rays in shades of red with yellow tips and contrasting darker center disks. Firewheel’s native habitat is dry, open plains, thriving in full sun to partial shade and dry, sandy or calcareous soils.
Otherwise known as Wild Strawberry, this is a perennial, ground-hugging plant with hairy, leafy stalks and white, five-petaled flowers with yellow centers. Once these flowers bloom in the spring, they are followed by sweet, wild strawberries that attract a variety of wildlife. This plant only grows up to 1 foot tall in full sun to partial shade, and in a wide range of dry soils.
Also known as Devil’s Walking Stick and Candlewood, this striking, thorny accent plant is grows erectly to 20 feet tall. It is drought deciduous, the stems remaining leafless for most of the year, but becoming covered with leaves after rainfall. At the end of each branch blooms a tight cluster of scarlet flowers from March to July. Ocotillo grows in partial shade and dry, sandy or rocky soils; it is drought tolerant, though its leaves will wither once soil conditions become dry.
Also called White, Red, or Ridge Beech, this large, deciduous tree typically grows 50 to 80 feet tall with a dense, rounded crown. Its foliage turns golden bronze in the fall, and its flowers lead to triangular nuts enclosed by spiny bracts that also ripen in the fall months. American Beech is resistant to browsing by deer, and grows best in partial shade and moist, rich, well-drained soils.
Also called Purple Joepyeweed, this erect perennial grows 4 to 7 feet tall and features dark green leaves and tiny, vanilla-scented, pinkish-purple flowers. They are highly popular with bees and bloom mid-summer to early fall, producing attractive seed heads that persist well into winter. This plant grows in full sun to shade and in moist soils.
Also known as Joe-pye Weed and Queen of the Meadow, this herbaceous perennial grows 2 to 7 feet tall with a large, purple-domed flowerhead. This plant blooms during the summer months, growing in full sun to partial shade and moist to wet soil. Trumpetweed acts as a great pollinator plant and supports many types of caterpillars on which birds feed.
Also called Joe Pye Weed, this herbaceous perennial typically grows 3 to 5 feet tall and 2 to 4 feet wide. It produces coarse foliage and clusters of small, disk flowers ranging in color from pale pink to dark purple from July to September. This plant grows in full sun to partial shade and in moist to wet soil. It can tolerate deer browsing, and its showy, fragrant flowers attract butterflies.
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