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Liatris elegans
Wildflower garden.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Habitat, Sandhill, mesic flatwoods.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts butterflies and bees.
- Year-round blooms
- Attracts butterflies
- Unique foliage and silhouette
Bignonia capreolata
To see how crossvine gets its common name, cut a mature stem and you'll see that the pith is cross-shaped.
Climbs using tendrils with adhesive disks.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, Its fast growth habit will need to be controlled in a small garden.
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Wildlife, Attracts some butterflies, but mainly hummingbirds as pollinators.
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Habitat, Moist hammocks, dry hammocks, dry hardwood forests
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
- Stunning
- Striking and exotic
- Available single or multi-stalked
- Not recommended
- Attracts butterflies and bees
Prunus umbellata
Specimen tree, street or parking lot tree.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Wildlife, Birds and other animals eat the fruit.
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Habitat, Hammocks, pine woods, mixed woods.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Pollinated by bees.
- Striking symmetrical appearance
- Uncommon edible fruit
- Cold tolerant
- Showy creamy white flowers
- Prominant olive crownshaft, slightly buldging
- Swollen, succulent branches
Coreopsis leavenworthii
Coreopsis is the State wildflower.
Cultivated flower beds, wildflower gardens, meadows, and butterfly gardens.
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, Self-seeds and so could become weedy.
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Habitat, Moist to wet flatwoods, marl prairies, sandhill, scrub, and disturbed areas. Common on moist, open roadsides.
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Attracts small butterflies.
Source of nectar and pollen for honeybees, native bees, and wasps.
- Long emerald crownshaft
- Falls over easily, may require staking
- Beautiful silhouette
- Attractive silver-gray foliage
Equisetum hyemale var. affine
Leaves are very small and arranged in circles around the stem at each node giving it a banded appearance. This is a fern ally and reproduces by spores
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Considertions, This plant will spread.
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Wildlife, Provides good cover at the edges of waterways or ponds.
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Habitat, Sandy soils in river floodplains, lake edges, ditches, sloughs.
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Did You Know?, Interesting foliage
- Narrow enough for tight spaces
- Wonderfully fragrant, carries a great distance
- Lovely deep green, glossy leaves
- Relatively compact and narrow canopy
- Can be kept narrow
- Prominant olive crownshaft, slightly buldging
Dyschoriste humistrata
Wildflower garden, groundcover
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Tolerance, Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
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Habitat, Forested areas around wetlands
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Did You Know?, Showy flowers
Larval host for common buckeye (Junonia coenia).
- Dense canopy
- Falls over easily, may require staking
- Majestic
- Colorful new leafs
- Fruit eaten by birds
- Self-shedding fronds
