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This is an early warm season grass that will green-up as early as March.  Bottlebrush Grass is an erect, native perennial, growing 2’ to 3’ tall.  This grass prefers partial shade, loamy soils, and mesic to sub-hydric sites.  It is often used in shade gardens and woodland restoration.  The widely spaced florets resemble a bottle brush. More Info...

Broomsedge is a long lived, native, perennial, warm season grass.  It grows in clumps, prefers xeric to mesic soils, and is from 2’ to 3’ (4’) tall.  This grass is fire tolerant, but is a poor forage grass, and can withstand only limited shade.  It provides excellent wildlife habitat for small animals and ground nesting birds.  The primary uses are for habitat, erosion control, mine reclamation, and restoration.     UPL, FAC. More Info...

Bushy Bluestem is a long lived, erect, perennial, warn season bunch grass, growing from 3’ to 5’ tall.  It has a medium shade tolerance, a low drought tolerance, and prefers a sub-mesic to hydric site.  This plant is adapted to flat woods, water retention margins, and other moist sites.  It provides good cover habitat for a variety of wildlife and is a good forage when young.  FAC, OBL.

Deer-tongue grass is a wide-leaved, clump-forming perennial grass, characterized by stiff leaves resembling a deer’s tongue and long, bristly leaf sheaths, some of which pull away from the stem at a characteristic angle. This species reproduces by seed, and often forms large clumps. Flowers are borne on fine stalks in an open, sparse, branched flower head 3 to 6 inches long. Flowering can occur from early summer to early fall. This plant grows best in damp sandy soil although it is tolerant to drier environments.

This is a tall, erect, 5’ to 7’ high, perennial, clump grass and it is our closest relative to corn.  It prefers full sun, but can withstand limited shade, has a low drought tolerance, and grows mostly in wetter soils.  Gamma grass is fire tolerant and is used for wildlife habitat and reclamation on hydric sites.  Sometimes called “Ice Cream” grass in reference to how much livestock like the grass when provided as forage. FAC, FACW. More Info...

Otherwise known as spear-grass this plant is a native, tufted, cool-season grass, perennial bunchgrass. Plant heights vary between 1-4 feet tall with erect, smooth culms and long, flat leaves 8-12 inches long. The source of the plant name is the 4-5 inch long twisted awn which arises from the lemma. It detaches from the inflorescence with the seed and gives the appearance of a short needle and long thread. A desirable forage product for livestock as well as elk and deer if grazed in spring prior to awn development and in fall after seed is dropped. The plant is drought tolerant and prefers well drained sands to fine sandy loams to coarse gravely loam soils.

An erect, native, perennial, warm season, bunch grass with thread like leaves.  This grass has a medium life span, a high drought tolerance, and can withstand partial shade.  It grows from 1’ to 2’ tall and is tolerant of fire and low fertility sites.  Pineywoods Dropseed is restricted to southern states, especially costal pine stands where it is a valuable wildlife habitat plant.

Also known as Grease Grass, this is a perennial, native warm season grass.  It is erect, grows in tufts, and is from 2 1/2' to 4’ tall.  This grass is highly drought tolerant, can tolerate light shade, is fire tolerant, and is adapted to shallow, infertile, dry soils.  It is a high value, but low volume forage grass.  Purple Top is a larval host for numerous moth specie. UPL, FACU. More Info...

Riverbank Wild Rye grows from 4’ to 5’ tall and prefers moist soils, however, it will tolerate mesic sites.  It is an erect, native, perennial, clump grass with long arching seed heads.  This grass has a low drought tolerance, but is shade  and fire tolerant.  It is widely used as an ornamental grass in riparian or damp shade areas and is used in riparian area restoration or reclamation.      FACW. More Info...

This is an erect, perennial, warm season native grass growing from 1 1/2’ to 2 1/2’ tall.  It has a high drought tolerance and is most often found in dry sites.  This grass does not compete well with other grasses in mesic or sub-hydric sites.  It provides excellent food, nesting habitat, and cover for wildlife.  The seed dangles from only one side of the flowering stem and the plant is used as a ground cover. More Info...

This is an erect, perennial, warm season native grass growing from 1 1/2’ to 2 1/2’ tall.  It has a high drought tolerance and is most often found in dry sites.  This grass does not compete well with other grasses in mesic or sub-hydric sites.  It provides excellent food, nesting habitat, and cover for wildlife.  The seed dangles from only one side of the flowering stem and the plant is used as a ground cover. More Info...

Switchgrass is a long lived, erect, perennial, warm season bunch grass.  It has medium drought tolerance, requires full sun, and has a high fire tolerance.  Switchgrass was a major component of the Tall Grass Prairie Ecosystem and provides valuable food and cover for wildlife.  Cave-in-Rock is a 5’ to 6’ tall, mid latitude variety, well suited as a high volume and high value forage product. UPL, FACW. More Info...

Switchgrass is a long lived, erect, perennial, warm season bunch grass.  It has medium drought tolerance, requires full sun, and has a high fire tolerance.  Switchgrass was a major component of the Tall Grass Prairie Ecosystem.  Nebraska 28 variety is a short, 3’ to 4’ tall, more northern variety.  It is well suited as a forage product and is an excellent wildlife habitat variety. UPL, FACW. More Info...

This is a tufted, perennial, warm season grass, growing from 2’ to 3 1/2’ tall.  It requires full sun, prefers dry sites, and has a high fire tolerance.  The plant is erect, has long arching thin leaves, and the seed heads are often not exerted from the leaf sheath, which enables the plant to drop its seed over an extended period.  Tall Dropseed is an excellent cover plant for quail and is a favorite food of turkey. UPL, FACU. More Info...

Toothache grass is an erect, perennial, native warm season grass that greens-up early in the spring.  It is a bunch grass that grows 2’ to 3’ tall and is adapted to wet, poorly drained soils.  The seed heads have a comb-like appearance and contains a substance that when chewed numbs the tongue and gums.  This plant is restricted to the southern costal states. FACW.

Wiregrass is a costal plain native warm season grass specie.  It is an erect, 2’ to 4’ tall, bunch grass that is drought tolerant, fire tolerant, and tolerates partial shade well.  It grows in a wide variety of soils in xeric to sub-hydric sites.  The name refers to the very long awns.  This grass is important as a fine fuel for pine forest understory burn management and as nesting and cover for quail. FAC.

This perennial forb has lavender two lipped tubular flowers in two inch wide, dense, round, single heads.  It is an erect native plant, 3’ to 4’ tall, with square stems, and is clump forming.  Bergamot is drought tolerant, is tolerant of partial shade, and prefers a xeric to mesic site in well drained soils, but will grow in poor soils.  It has a long summer flowering period and is a great pollinator conservation plant.  UPL, FAC+. More Info...

Blackeyed Susan is an annual or short lived biennial, however, it seeds profusely.  This is a 1’ to 3’ tall, erect, branching, native plant with numerous heads of yellow ray flowers surrounding a black center of disc flowers that flowers from June thru August.  It prefers moist to dry well drained soils and is fire and drought tolerant.  This flower prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade.  FACU-, FACU. More Info...

This native perennial has an extremely deep tap root, which makes it highly drought resistant.  Butterfly Milkweed has heads of bright orange flowers, making it a favorite of native flower gardens.  The plant is 2’ to 3’ tall, needs full sun, and prefers well drained sandy soils, but will grow in a wide variety of soils.  It is deer resistant, but as its name indicates, it attracts huge numbers of butterflies. More Info...

This plant is also called Showy Tick-Trefoil in reference to the largest flowers of any of this specie.  The flowers on this 3 ½ ‘ to 4 ½ ‘ plant are pink and open in mid-summer.  It is an erect, perennial, bushy, native legume, preferring full sun and mesic to sub-hydric sites.  It is primarily used for food and cover plantings for wildlife.  Its triangular jointed seeds stick tenaciously to clothing and animal fur for dispersal.  FACU, FAC. More Info...

The brilliant scarlet red flowers make this plant a must for any wetland site.  Cardinal Flower is an erect, moderately long lived native perennial, flowering from late summer into the fall.  The plant is 1’ to 4’ tall and the flowers are in terminal spikes.  It will tolerate full sun or shade, but the soil must be kept damp.  Because of the long throat on the flowers this plant depends on humming birds for pollination.  FACW+, OBL

Also known as Ox-Eye Sunflower, this tall 3’ to 6’ native perennial has only a moderate lifespan.  The plant is erect with stiff branches.  The 3” wide flower heads of yellow ray flowers and dark cone shaped center disc flowers are terminal on the branches.  This plant flowers mid-summer and has a very long bloom period.  It is drought tolerant, needs full sun, and prefers moist sandy soils, but will grow, reduced in size, in clay soils. More Info...

This native, perennial legume has bi-colored pea flowers that are pink below and pale yellow to white above.  Goats Rue flowers in late spring to early summer with the blossoms in crowded clusters on a 1’ to 2 1/2’ shrub-like plant.  The plant will tolerate full sun or partial shade, prefers sandy open woods and fields, and needs a dry site.  It contains the chemical rotenone, which is an insecticide and fish poison.

Tiny yellow flowers are in flat top clusters on this erect, short lived, perennial.  Golden Alexander is a 1’ to 2 1/2’ tall native forb that grows in small colonies.  The plant will grow in full sun to partial shade, likes well drained soils, and prefers moist sites, but is tolerant of dry sites in summer.  This plant is deer resistant but is attracts butterflies and is a good pollinator conservation plant.  FAC-, FAC

This flowering plant is easy to recognize due to its drooping long yellow ray flowers and the grey to brown center.  It is a 3’ to 5’ tall native perennial with a moderate lifespan.  It grows as a single stem with flowers terminal on several branches.  Greyheaded Coneflower has a low shade tolerance, medium drought tolerance, but will tolerate xeric to sub-hydric soils.  Bird preference for the seeds makes it hard to get a good harvest. More Info...

This is a long lived, native, perennial legume with inconspicuous small white flowers.  It is an erect, 2’ to 4’ tall, multistemmed, shrub-like plant with leaves similar to Partridge Pea.  It has a high drought tolerance, will grow in xeric to hydric sites in a variety of soils, but does not like heavy clay soils.  Rabbits, deer, turkey, quail, and a host of other wildlife relish this plant and its seeds.  A good forage plant early in the season. UPL,FAC. More Info...

This is a clump forming, 6’ to 8’ (10’) tall native perennial.  It has  a wide head of terminal clusters of reddish purple flowers.  Iron Weed grows well in a wide range of soils on  mesic to hidric sites.  Starting to flower in mid-summer, it has a long bloom period and a wide range of pollinators are attracted to this plant.  Its presence in pastures is an indication of over grazing.  FAC, FACW. More Info...

Jerusalem Artichoke is a 6’ to 8’ tall, erect, moderately long lived, native perennial.  It has large, coarse, yellow sunflower blossoms and flowers in late summer.  The plant has a high drought tolerance, prefers full sun and xeric to mesic soils.  This plant may become aggressive in ideal habitat.  It is a superb wildlife habitat and food plant.  Tubers from this plant are sold commercially for human consumption.  FACU, FAC

Joe-Pye Weed is a 6’ to 10’ (12’) tall, native, perennial forb with a moderate life span.  It starts flowering in mid-summer and has long, narrow leaves in whorls and pale purple flower clusters in large terminal heads.  This plant has a low drought tolerance, preferring moist to wet sites in damp meadows, along stream banks, and in alluvial bottoms.  It attracts birds and a large variety of pollinators.  FAC+, OBL. More Info...

Lance Leaved Coreopsis is a common flower garden plant sometimes producing large colonies of bright yellow flowers in late spring and early summer.  It is a native perennial forb, but is not really reliable as a perennial.  The plant is 1’ to 2’ tall, clump forming, prefers full sun, and is drought tolerant.  It prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade.  Most natural stands are found on dry infertile sites.  UPL, FAC. More Info...

This is a 3’ to 6’ tall, branching, shrub-like plant.  It is the showiest of the asters and has large blue ray flowers with orange yellow centers.  A pink variety is available.  New England Aster is a moderately long lived, native, perennial that prefers moist sites.  It will perform well in full sun and light shade.  It is used widely in gardens and provides good wildlife cover in wetland reclamation and other wet sites.  FACW-, FACW. More Info...

This long lived, native, perennial has individual flowers on 1’ to 3’ tall, erect, single stems.  The flowers are reddish purple and the drooping ray flowers make the plant easy to identify.  Purple Coneflower has a low drought tolerance, prefers moist sites, and needs full sun.  Echinacea is a very popular herbal product and collection of roots from native populations endangers this plant.  Cultivars are in high demand for gardens. More Info...

Purple Prairie Clover is a 1’ to 3’ tall, native, perennial legume with a deep tap root that flowers in mid-summer.  The flowers are purplish pink on an enlongated spike atop wire-like stems with part of the cone bare.  It has a high drought tolerance, a low shade tolerance, and prefers upland xeric to mesic short grasslands or glades.  It is an excellent forage plant and a great wildlife habitat plant.  It does not tolerate competition well. More Info...

Otherwise known as Common Ragweed this plant is a native annual and is the most wide spread plant of the genus Ambrosia in North America. Plant height is generally 3’ or less. The plant will emerge in late spring and will set seed in late summer or early fall. The plants wind-dispersed pollen is a strong allergen to many people with hay fever. The plant grows best in dry, well drained, sunny areas however this plant can adapt to any number of site conditions. The plant is one of the most desired by quail and upland game birds because of its multifaceted function as it provides for the basic nutritional and habitat needs for adults and chicks alike.

Spiney, grass-like leaves are clustered at the base of single stout stems on this native perennial forb.  The small white flowers, which appear in mid-summer, are in terminal globular heads.  The plant is 2’ to 5’ tall, has a high drought tolerance, needs full sun, and is usually found on dry sites.  3,000 year old moccasins have been found made from the fibers of this plant. FAC, FACW. More Info...

Roundheaded Lespedeza is a long lived, native, perennial legume.  It has stiff, erect, mostly unbranched stems with small white pea-like flowers in terminal clusters.  This plant is 2’ to 4’ tall and flowers in late summer.  It is drought and fire tolerant, prefers xeric to mesic sites on well drained soils, and needs full sun.  This plant is especially valuable as a food source for upland game birds.  UPL, FACU. More Info...

Restricted to the deep South, Sensitive Briar is a trailing legume that may be 10’ long.  Flowering in late summer and early fall, it has 3/4” pink “puff” or “pom-pom” flowers.  The seeds are in 1” to 4” long pods covered with thorn-like hairs.  This plant is an important component of the Long Leaf Pine understory and is a valuable food source for bobwhite quail, wild turkey, and the endangered gopher tortoise.

Smooth Aster is a 1’ to 3’ tall plant that has multiple erect stems growing from rhizomes.  It is a native perennial with only a moderate life span.  Flowering from late summer, it has pale blue to purple ray flower with yellow center.  It prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade and can grow in a wide variety of soils and moisture.  Deer readily browse the plant and it attracts birds and butterflies.  It is a popular garden plant. More Info...

This is a long lived, native, perennial, 3’ to 5’ tall plant.  It may be clump forming from rhizomes, sending up single or multiple stalks with long, dense, stemless flowerheads.  The small showey flowers are rayless, lavender, and bloom from the top of the spike down.  It has medium drought tolerance, prefers moist average soils, and requires full sun.  A good pollinator conservation plant, it is widely used in gardens.  FACU, FAC+. More Info...

This is a long lived, native, perennial, 3’ to 5’ tall plant.  It may be clump forming from rhizomes, sending up single or multiple stalks with long, dense, stemless flowerheads.  The small showey flowers are rayless, lavender, and bloom from the top of the spike down.  It has medium drought tolerance, prefers moist average soils, and requires full sun.  A good pollinator conservation plant, it is widely used in gardens.  FACU, FAC+.

This is a 6’ to 12’ long, native, perennial, trailing or climbing vine.  It has 1” wide blue to lavender, wide winged pea shaped flowers and blooms in mid-summer.  The seed pods are slender, up to 5” long, and long pointed.  It prefers sandy woodlands and fields, and although found further north, it is mostly a plant of pine woods in the south.  Seed are important to bobwhite quail and deer eat the foliage.

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This is a 6’ to 12’ long, native, perennial, trailing or climbing vine.  It has 1” wide blue to lavender, wide winged pea shaped flowers and blooms in mid-summer.  The seed pods are slender, up to 5” long, and long pointed.  It prefers sandy woodlands and fields, and although found further north, it is mostly a plant of pine woods in the south.  Seed are important to bobwhite quail and deer eat the foliage.

True to its name this is a tall, 3’ to 10’, native perennial.  Tall Coreopsis has yellow flowers with brown centers, three part leaves, and erect single stems branching at the summit.  Flowering starts in late summer.  It prefers full sun, but will tolerate light shade and thrives in infertile, sandy, or rocky well drained soils.  Birds are attracted to its small sunflower-like seeds. FAC. More Info...

White Prairie Clover is a 2’ to 3’ tall, native perennial legume, growing in small clumps.  It flowers early to mid-summer and has tiny white flowers on round spikes and blooms from the bottom of the cone upward.  It grows mostly on sandy or gravelly, well drained, soils.  It is an important browse species for large mammals and the seeds are eaten by numerous birds and rodents.  It is a nutritious forage plant.

Whorled Rosinweed is a native perennial which can reach heights of 10’, most often however the plant reaches heights of less than 5’. It flowers in early summer and will continue into early fall. The leaves of this plant are whorled with generally 3 leaves per whorl but can have up to 5. The flowers of this plant are yellow and have numerous parts. Each flower will open gradually then wilt quickly. It plant performs best in well drained areas but can adapt to most sites.

Wild Quinine forms white, flat-topped clusters on erect stems that may be singular or branched at the top.  It is a perennial, clump forming plant with leaves mostly basal, becoming smaller upward.  The plant is 1 1/2’ to 3’ tall and flowers mid-summer.  It has a high drought tolerance, prefers full sun, but will tolerate partial shade, likes xeric to mesic sites in heavy soils. More Info...

This native perennial plant is largely unbranched and up to 6' tall. The stout central stem is light green, and slightly hairy in the upper stem and at the base of the upper compound leaves. The compound leaves are even-pinnate with about 10-20 leaflets. The medium to dark green leaflets are individually up to 2½" long and ¾" across. More Info...

A perennial that may reach as much as 13 feet in height with showy yellow flowers and conspicuous 'wings' that run along the length of the stem. Wingstem is primarily a weed of pastures, hay fields, fencerows, roadsides, and rights-of-way. It is found throughout Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia.