Top 10 Native Plants to Spruce up Your Garden

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Top 10 Native Plants to Spruce up Your Garden
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Smooth White Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Also known as foxglove beardtongue. Beautiful
addition to pollinator garden or perennial
border. Long blooming period in early summer.
Husker Red is popular cultivar with dark red
leaves
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Northern Blueflag (Iris versicolor)
Narrow sword-shaped leaves stay attractive all
season. Spring bloomer with several blue-violet
flowers per stem.
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Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium spp.)
Several similar species with tall leafy stems and
flat to rounded heads of small pink flowers.
Butterfly magnet in mid-late summer. Shorter
cultivars now widely available. An essential
plant for butterfly and pollinator gardens.
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Common Milkweed ( Asclepias syriaca )
Essential food plant for eastern monarch
caterpillars. Bold, handsome foliage and
baseball-sizedspheres of fragrant pink flowers.
Spreading roots can be controlled with simple
root barrier
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Dennstaedtia Punctilobula (Hayscented Fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula is commonly
called hay-scented fern as the fronds release a
fragrance reminiscent of fresh mown hay when
brushed with a hand, crushed or bruised.
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Liatris spicata - Purple Gayfeather
This Native American wildflower is an excellent
selection for the border or meadow garden.
Upright growth with brilliant display of purple
flowers in summer. It is a first rate cut flower.
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Eastern Red Cedar - Juniperus virginiana
Eastern Red Cedar have a high-salt tolerance and
can handle just about any soil type. They can be
used as a native privacy screen and are an
essential plant to any Native garden or landscape
in the Northeast or Long Island.
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Vaccinium Angustifolium
Deciduous shrub with a low bushy habit. Narrow
leaves turn a red-bronze color in fall. White
flowers appear in May, followed by edible
blue-black berries.
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Clethra alnifolia - Summersweet
Slow to medium growing shrub that is blanketed
with extremely fragrant white flowers in late
summer. Green foliage changes to shades of yellow
in fall. Native to Long Island Northeast
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