What's growing in this space?

Monarch butterfly on Butterfly Milkweed

There are over 50 species of plants growing in this garden.

Canada Anemone – Anemonastrum canadense

Bearberry – Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta

Blue gentian – Gentiana andrewsii

Blue-stemmed Goldenrod – Solidago caesia

Bunchberry Dogwood- Cornus Canadensis L.

Bush honeysuckle- Diervilla loncera 

Canada golden rod – Solidago canadensis

Cardinal flower – Lobelia cardinalis

Eastern Ninebark – Physocarpus opulfolius

Common Yarrow – Achillea millefolium

Culvers root – Veronicastrum virginicum

Dense blazing star- Liatris spicata

Rough Blazing Star – Liatris aspera

Golden Alexanders – Zizia  aurea

Gray headed coneflower – Ratibida pinnata

Gray’s sedge – Carex grayi

Great blue Lobilia – Lobelia siphilitica

Yellow Giant Hyssop – Agastache nepitoids

Hairy beard tongue – Penstemon hirsutus

Bluebell of Scotland –Campanula rotundifolia

Jack-in-the-pulpit – Arisaema triphyllum

Spotted Joe Pye Weed – Eutochium maculatum

Eastern Marsh fern – Thelypteris palustris

Michigan Lily – Lilium michiganense

Wild Bergamot –Monarda fistulosa

New England aster – Symphyotrichum novae-angliae     (Important late season plant)

Nodding onion – Allium cernuum

Ohio spider wort – Tradescantia ohiensis (This plant is endangered)

Ostrich fern – Matteuccia struthiopteris

Path rush – Juncus tenuis

Pearly everlasting – Anaphalis margaritacea

Prairie Drop Seed – Sporobolus heterolepis

Prairie smoke – Geum triflorum

Purple coneflower – Echinacea purpurea

Purple hyssop – Agastache scrophulariifolia

Pussy willow – Salix discolor

Red columbine – Aquilegia canadensis

Round-lobed hepatica – Hepatica americana

Lance-leaved Self-heal – Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata

Side oats gramma – Bouteloua curtipendula

Silverweed – Potentilla anserina

Shrubby St. John’s Wort – Hypericum prolificum

Smooth Aster – Symphotrichum leave

Smooth Solomon seal – Polygonatum biflorum

Spotted Beebalm – Monarda punctata

Strict blue eyed grass – Sisyrinchium montanum

Trillium – Trillium grandiflorum

Virgin’s Bower – Clematis virginiana

White sage – Artemisia ludoviciana

Wild Lupin – Lupinus perennis

Woodland strawberries – Fragaria vesca

Zigzag golden rod – Solidago flexicaulis