{"title":"North American Natives","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorth American Natives brings together the plants that belong to this continent: the trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, and wildflowers that grew here long before the first gardens were made. Many are Southeastern natives, the heart of what Woodlanders has always grown; others range more widely across the eastern woodlands, the prairies, the mountains, and the coasts. What they share is a deep local belonging, a fitness for American soil and weather that no import can quite match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative plants are the quiet workhorses of a living garden. They evolved in step with the insects, birds, and mammals around them, so a native oak or viburnum or milkweed feeds a web of life that ornamental exotics rarely touch: the caterpillars that become moths and butterflies, the berries that carry songbirds through winter, the early nectar that wakes the first bees of spring. To plant natives is to garden for more than yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range here is wide, from towering canopy trees to low woodland groundcovers, from the fragrant native azaleas and fothergillas of the Southern woods to the asters, coneflowers, and blue-stars of the sunny border. Some are refined enough for a formal planting; others are happiest naturalizing at a woodland edge or along a wet ditch. Read each listing closely and site every plant where the conditions genuinely suit them, and a native planting will largely look after itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the plants of our own region, see our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/southeast-natives\"\u003eSoutheastern Natives\u003c\/a\u003e collection. For the largest among them, explore our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/canopy-trees\"\u003eCanopy Trees\u003c\/a\u003e, and for shade and structure, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ferns\"\u003eFerns\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ground-covers\"\u003eGround Covers\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"acer-rubrum-candy-ice","title":"Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcer rubrum\u003c\/em\u003e 'Candy Ice' is a Woodlanders introduction, found in southwest Virginia by the late Norman Beal. We use Norman's original name, though the same tree has been circulated elsewhere as 'Snowfire'. This is an unusual variegated red maple, the leaves marbled in pink, white, and green, and the foliage burns early, among the first to color when fall arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePyramidal in youth, 'Candy Ice' broadens with age into an irregular, rounded crown on the vigorous frame of a native red maple, reaching forty to sixty feet in time. The variegation is the draw and also the caution: those pale leaves scorch in full sun, so this maple wants the relief of part shade, where the pink and cream stay clean and bright. Small red flowers open before the leaves in earliest spring, the familiar red-maple signal that winter is loosening, and ripen into reddish samaras, the keys of a tree long called soft maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe red maple, \u003cem\u003eAcer rubrum\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the most widespread trees of eastern North America, and Native peoples knew the species well. The Cherokee, Iroquois, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi prepared a bark decoction as a wash for sore and inflamed eyes, while inner-bark teas were taken for coughs and stomach complaints, and the tannin-rich bark also yielded ink and, with iron added, a dark blue dye for cloth. 'Candy Ice' is grown for beauty rather than use, yet the variegated leaves carry that deep American lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Candy Ice' in part shade as a specimen where the marbled foliage and early fall color can be enjoyed, keeping the leaves clear of harsh afternoon sun and drying wind. The tree thrives in moist to average, well-drained soil and tolerates the damp ground red maples often colonize. A conversation piece for the collector's garden, and a piece of southern plant history besides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805791347,"sku":"ACER-RUBR-CAND-ICE-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AcerCandyIceWoodlanders-3.jpg?v=1750637541"},{"product_id":"acer-barbatum","title":"Acer barbatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer barbatum is a medium to large deciduous tree of rounded, oval form, a southern cousin of the northern sugar maple and sometimes filed under Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum or Acer floridanum. The Florida maple is built for heat in a way the northern relative is not, smaller in every part, with leaves that are whitish beneath and a constitution suited to long, humid summers. In the wild these trees favor fertile, moist, well-drained, often calcareous ground, frequently along streams and in rich hammocks from Virginia south to the Florida panhandle and west into Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all the sugar maples, their rising sap has long meant sweetness; the syrup industry of the North rests on close kin, and the southern trees can be tapped as well, though they yield more modestly. The fall color is a clean, unhurried yellow, sometimes warming toward orange, and the bark of older trunks takes on the handsome gray, longitudinally ribbed character of the northern sugar maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a garden tree the Florida maple earns a place as a durable, well-mannered shade maple for the South, at home as a lawn specimen, a street or park tree, or a canopy over a woodland planting. Give these trees room to round out, and underplant with shade-tolerant natives that appreciate the dappled light beneath. Native to the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805856883,"sku":"ACER-BARB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-3.jpg?v=1720136130"},{"product_id":"adiantum-pedatum","title":"Adiantum pedatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the cool hush of shaded woods, \u003cem\u003eAdiantum pedatum\u003c\/em\u003e rises on slender, glossy black stems that hold the lacy green fronds in flattened semicircles, each a hand-turned fan or horseshoe of finely cut segments. Standing twelve to thirty inches tall, the northern maidenhair forms serene clumps that spread slowly on creeping rhizomes, never in a hurry. In early spring the fiddleheads emerge a rosy to burgundy hue and uncurl into the distinctive bird's-foot, palmately branched leaves that give the fern such grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA true northern maidenhair, this is the hardiest of the genus, thriving in USDA zones 3 to 8 where lesser ferns falter. Part to full shade suits the plant best, in cool, humus-rich soil kept moist but well drained and on the acid to neutral side, where steady moisture brings out the fine texture. Summer heat and drought can brown the delicate fronds, but a shaded, sheltered spot rewards the gardener with season-long elegance. Deer-resistant and low in fuss, the northern maidenhair makes a refined companion for hostas, trilliums, wild ginger, and woodland grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew native ferns carry such a long human history. Several Native peoples valued the northern maidenhair, also called five-finger fern, as both medicine and material: the Cherokee and Iroquois steeped the fronds for coughs, asthma, and chest complaints and prepared root decoctions for rheumatism, while Karok and Makah weavers worked the polished black stems into the dark patterns of their baskets. The remedies belonged to skilled hands; the fern offered here is for the woodland garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet the northern maidenhair carry the quiet elegance of the woodland floor: a slow, long-lived heirloom for shaded rock gardens, shady paths, and moisture-retentive borders, lovely massed beneath taller natives. Patience is repaid with perennial beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Alan Cressler and Sally \u0026amp; Andy Wasowski.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806708851,"sku":"ADIA-PEDA-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AdiantumpedatumSAWasowskiWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1750347106"},{"product_id":"adiantum-capillus-veneris","title":"Adiantum capillus-veneris","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe southern maidenhair has a way of choosing impossible places. Look for this fern on a shaded limestone bluff where water seeps through the rock, or in the spray zone of a spring-fed creek, and you will likely find the fronds growing sideways out of a crevice as if that were the most natural thing in the world. The wiry black stems hold up fan-shaped pinnules so thin they seem almost translucent in morning light, and the whole plant trembles at the slightest breath of air. Few native ferns carry this much delicacy with so little fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range runs across the southern half of the country, scattered but loyal to one kind of habitat: damp ledges, dolomite outcrops, calcareous seeps, the cool faces of boulders near moving water. Offer something close to those conditions and the southern maidenhair will reward you by spreading into slow, civilized colonies. Bright filtered shade, steady moisture, a soil sweetened with limestone chips or crushed oyster shell, and air that actually moves. This fern resents stagnation almost as much as drought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deciduous species, so the fronds die back in winter and return each spring with that same impossibly soft green. Wonderful tucked at the base of a north-facing wall, draped over the edge of a stone trough, or naturalized along a shaded path where a hose can reach. A fern that asks you to read those preferences honestly, then thrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is history in those fronds. Across ancient Greece, Persia, and southern Europe the maidenhair was steeped into capillaire, a sweet syrup of fronds, licorice, and sugar that physicians prescribed for coughs and chest complaints from the Renaissance into the nineteenth century, and that later became a fashionable drink flavoring. The Latin name, the hair of Venus, and the old use as a hair tonic both nod to those glossy dark stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Alan Cressler.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806839923,"sku":"ADIA-CAPI-VENE-01Q","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Adiantumcapillus-venerisAlanCresslerWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1750346407"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora-var-serotina","title":"Aesculus parviflora var. serotina","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wide-spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eserotina\u003c\/em\u003e carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late bloom is the point. Where the straight species flowers in early July, var. serotina extends the bottlebrush season into August, a gift of nectar for hummingbirds, swallowtails, and native bees when little else in the shade garden offers any. A vigorous grower that may reach a larger size than the species, the late bottlebrush buckeye suits shrub borders and large mass plantings, and seldom needs pruning, though an old colony can be cut to the ground to renew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive var. serotina room to form a broad colony in moist, well-drained, organic soil, in part shade or, with steady moisture, more sun. Paired with the earlier-blooming species, a planting can carry six weeks of white bottlebrush spikes across July and August. The seeds, like those of every buckeye, are poisonous if eaten, so site with that in mind near paths and play areas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807036531,"sku":"AESC-PARV-SERO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aesculusparvifloravar.serotinaWoodlanders-1.jpg?v=1750639271"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora","title":"Aesculus parviflora","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July, when most of the shade garden has settled into a holding pattern of foliage and waiting, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e opens for business. The timing is the first surprise. The flowers are the second. Each panicle is a foot or more of tightly packed white tubular blooms with conspicuous pink-red anthers projecting beyond the petals, the whole spike held upright above the foliage like something assembled by a botanical committee that could not decide between elegant and extravagant and chose both. A mature colony in full bloom in midsummer is among the more spectacular events available to the shade gardener, and the hummingbirds and swallowtails arrive reliably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye is native to a fairly narrow range of rich woodlands in Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida, which makes the extraordinary cold hardiness something of a botanical anomaly. The shrub performs without complaint through Zone 4 winters, traveling far further from home than most plants of that provenance. The Royal Horticultural Society granted the Award of Garden Merit, which is their way of saying this shrub does what a good shrub should, without drama, across a wide range of conditions. They are correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye spreads steadily by suckers, forming broad colonies that expand with a patience and deliberateness suited to a woodland setting. The large, palmately compound leaves, each with five to seven leaflets, give the planting a lush, tropical-adjacent quality through summer. Fall color is a clear, warm yellow that holds for several weeks before the foliage drops cleanly. In winter the bare architecture of a mature colony, all arching stems and layered horizontal branching, has a presence of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of plant serious gardeners wonder why they waited to acquire. The usual reason is that the shrub looks modest in a one-gallon pot. That does not last.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807069299,"sku":"AESC-PARV-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-5.jpg?v=1720136187"},{"product_id":"aesculus-pavia","title":"Aesculus pavia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe red buckeye is the South's hummingbird herald, a clump-forming, round-topped deciduous shrub or small tree whose lustrous, palmately compound leaves break very early, often before the last frosts, and whose six-inch panicles of tubular scarlet-red flowers open in spring just as the ruby-throated hummingbirds return north. The bright bloom, unusual among the buckeyes, draws hummingbirds and bees in numbers and gives the plant a long place in the affection of native-plant gardeners across the southern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative peoples knew the buckeye well, though not as food without effort: every part is poisonous, rich in the saponin aescin and the glycoside aesculin, and the bright seeds are the most dangerous. The same saponins made the buckeye useful, the crushed seeds and branches tossed into still pools to stupefy fish, which rose to the surface to be gathered, while leached and roasted nuts could be eaten and the lather of the seeds served as a soap. Handsome as the seeds are, treat the red buckeye as ornamental, and keep the poisonous parts away from children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy late summer the red buckeye often drops the leaves early, so site where a summer gap reads as seasonal rather than sad, among other shrubs or at a woodland edge that fills in around the bare frame. Plant in sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil, and enjoy the early flowers as one of the first nectar sources of the southern spring. Lovely with native azaleas and dogwoods that bloom in the same season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807102067,"sku":"AESC-PAVI-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-7.jpg?v=1720136191"},{"product_id":"agave-americana","title":"Agave americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe century plant is the great architectural agave, a broad rosette of thick, gray green, spine-tipped leaves that can spread six to eight feet across, each leaf edged with hooked teeth and ending in a hard dark spine. The form is bold and symmetrical, a piece of living sculpture for a hot, dry corner, and the silver cast of the foliage carries the planting through every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew plants have served people longer. Native to Mexico and the warm reaches of Texas, \u003cem\u003eAgave americana\u003c\/em\u003e is the maguey of Mesoamerica, the source of pulque, the milky fermented sap once drunk as a sacred and medicinal beverage, and of pita, the strong leaf fiber twisted into rope, net, and cloth across the pre-Columbian world. The flowers were eaten, and folk medicine turned the sap to use as a poultice and a digestive remedy. The common name century plant nods to the long wait for bloom: after years, often a decade or two, a single rosette throws up a flower stalk twenty feet or more, opens yellow flowers, sets seed, and then dies, leaving offsets to carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the century plant full sun and sharp drainage, a gravel garden, a hot bank, a raised bed, or a large container, and let the rosette stand as a focal point among other sun-and-drought lovers. Site away from paths and play areas, since the spines are formidable, and enjoy a planting that asks for almost nothing once established. Hardy in zones 8 to 10, evergreen, and as tough as any plant in the dry garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807790195,"sku":"AGAV-AMER-01G","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AgaveAmericana.jpg?v=1720139274"},{"product_id":"allium-cernuum","title":"Allium cernuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA graceful native onion, \u003cem\u003eAllium cernuum\u003c\/em\u003e, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell-shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue-green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative across much of North America, including the piedmont and mountains of the mid-Atlantic, the nodding onion thrives in well-drained soil and full sun to part shade, tolerating rocky slopes and dry hillsides once established. Deer and rabbits leave the oniony foliage alone. The mildly oniony leaves and bulbs are edible, with a long record in Indigenous cooking and folk medicine, and the city of Chicago is thought to take the name from an Algonquin word for this wild onion. Our most ornamental native onion, easy and long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":43055335800947,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":43055335833715,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AlliumcernuumMBGWoodlanders5.jpg?v=1747170635"},{"product_id":"alnus-maritima","title":"Alnus maritima","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeaside alder is a medium to large deciduous shrub, sometimes a small tree, with glossy, oval, toothed leaves and a habit of doing things backward. Where every other native alder flowers in spring, \u003cem\u003eAlnus maritima\u003c\/em\u003e opens elongated catkins in the fall, then carries small, woody, pinecone-like fruits through winter for quiet ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe native range is as unusual as the bloom time. Seaside alder grows wild in only a few places: a limited area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and adjacent Delaware, a single area in Oklahoma, and a more recently discovered population in north Georgia. Genetic studies suggest these widely separated stands are distinct subspecies, the remnants of a once far more widespread plant. Our material comes from the eastern population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare in cultivation but easy and adaptable, seaside alder takes to moist, sunny places and to ordinary garden soil, and like other alders fixes nitrogen at the roots to enrich poor ground. A fine choice for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any damp spot needing soil stabilization, where the fall catkins and persistent little cones earn a second look. Hardy in zones 6 to 9.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808576627,"sku":"ALNU-MARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2112.jpg?v=1720136254"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-obovalis","title":"Amelanchier obovalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoastal serviceberry is the compact, low-growing member of a beloved native clan, a small deciduous shrub of the Atlantic coastal plain that spreads gently into colonies and opens clouds of white, five-petaled flowers in early spring, among the first shrubs to bloom as the woods wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spring flowers give way to small clusters of sweet, blue-purple fruit in early summer, edible straight from the bush or baked into pies and preserves, and as good for birds as for people. Native from New York and Massachusetts south to Georgia and Alabama, often in dry pine barrens and open woods, the shrub takes naturally to lean, well-drained, sunny ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only three to five feet, coastal serviceberry suits the small garden where the taller serviceberries would overwhelm, lovely in a native border, a wildlife planting, or a naturalized edge in sun to part shade. The early bloom, the edible berries, and the easy, colony-forming habit make this a generous, low-key native. Drought tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809559667,"sku":"AMEL-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1593.jpg?v=1720136314"},{"product_id":"amorpha-laevigata","title":"Amorpha laevigata","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth false indigo is a rare deciduous shrub of sandy southern streambanks, carrying pinnate, compound leaves whose leaflets are notably large and rounded, a softer, more luxuriant texture than the ferny foliage of the common false indigos. In early summer the branch tips raise slender spikes of tiny blue to purple flowers, each lit with the bright orange anthers typical of the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is genuinely rare in the wild, known from only a very few localities on sandy stream banks in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. We thank our friend Ron Lance for collecting seed of this uncommon species and sharing it with us; Woodlanders may be the first to offer the plant to the gardening public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA choice native for a sunny to lightly shaded border, a streamside planting, or a collector's bed, where the bold compound foliage and purple summer spikes earn their place and the flowers feed bees and butterflies. Like other false indigos, smooth false indigo fixes nitrogen at the roots and asks little once established. Six to eight feet, in well-drained, even sandy, soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809592435,"sku":"AMOR-LAEV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amsonia-hubrechtii","title":"Amsonia hubrichtii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThreadleaf bluestar is grown for two seasons at once: a haze of soft, powder-blue stars in late spring, and a billow of fine, needle-thin foliage that turns a blazing clear gold in fall. Native to the Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas, \u003cem\u003eAmsonia hubrichtii\u003c\/em\u003e forms a large, dense, shrub-like clump of upright stems clothed in those threadlike leaves, and the autumn color alone earns a place in any sunny border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders, well before the Perennial Plant Association named the species Perennial Plant of the Year in 2011. The pale blue, half-inch flowers gather in terminal clusters atop three-foot stems, and the milky sap that runs in every Amsonia leaves the plant untouched by deer and rabbits. An easy, long-lived, almost trouble-free native for the sunny border with well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive threadleaf bluestar room to swell into a soft, fine-textured mound, lovely massed, repeated down a border, or set where the gold fall color can catch low autumn light. Striking beside late asters and grasses, and a generous foil to bolder leaves through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809756275,"sku":"AMSO-HUBR-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Amsonia_hubrichtii-MBG-4.jpg?v=1725832439"},{"product_id":"amsonia-tabernaemontana","title":"Amsonia tabernaemontana","description":"\u003cp\u003eEastern bluestar is the bluestar most gardeners know, a robust native perennial with broader, willowy oval leaves and the clear blue, star-shaped flowers that name the genus, carried in clusters at the stem tips in spring. \u003cem\u003eAmsonia tabernaemontana\u003c\/em\u003e grows happily in deep, moist soil in part shade, and rewards almost any reasonable site with bloom and easy good health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Armitage, in Herbaceous Perennial Plants, puts the species on his short list: \"Blue star flower is always on my list of 'no brainers.' Plant and get out of the way.\" The willowy summer foliage turns soft yellow in fall, the milky sap keeps deer and rabbits off, and a settled clump is as close to trouble-free as a perennial comes. Native across the eastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive eastern bluestar room to round into a shrubby clump at the middle of a border, in a native planting, or at a woodland edge, lovely with spring bulbs and early perennials and a quiet gold note in autumn. 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Selected for foliage with a deeper gloss and berries of a more saturated, almost lacquered red than the straight species, this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe season opens in mid spring with clusters of small white flowers, delicate and lace-like, and welcome to native bees at a moment when little else blooms. By midsummer the berries swell and deepen, and by early autumn ripen to a red so intense as to look almost artificial against the leaves. The foliage turns at the same time: the fall color of 'Brilliantissima' is among the more reliable and spectacular events of the native shrub calendar, a deep, burnished crimson that holds for weeks and earns the cultivar name outright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe berries persist well into winter, by which point the birds have usually found them; cedar waxwings in particular descend in flocks, either a delight or a caveat depending on attachment to the fruit display. Both views are fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAronia arbutifolia\u003c\/em\u003e tolerates wet soils, adapts to dry ones once established, and asks very little in return for a great deal of seasonal interest. Native, four-season, wildlife-supporting, and genuinely beautiful, a combination still rarer than it should be. 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The crushed leaves carry a distinctive odor, and the whole tree reads more like the tropics than a temperate woodland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsimina triloba\u003c\/em\u003e sends up many root suckers and forms colonies, the natural way of the species, and prefers deep, rich soil and dependable moisture. Pawpaw is self-sterile, so plant more than one, ideally unrelated seedlings, for cross-pollination and a good fruit set. Some nurseries offer named varieties selected for larger or sweeter fruit. Native to the eastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive pawpaw a sheltered, fertile spot in sun to part shade, with young trees appreciating some shade and mature ones fruiting best in sun. The tree anchors an edible landscape, a woodland edge, or a naturalized planting, and serves as the sole host of the zebra swallowtail butterfly. The soft gold fall color is a quiet bonus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057813721203,"sku":"ASIM-TRIL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AsiminatrilobaJimRobbins1.jpg?v=1783096578"},{"product_id":"aster-carolinianus","title":"Ampelaster carolinianus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmpelaster carolinianus\u003c\/em\u003e is a woody, scrambling, semi-evergreen vine that climbs through shrubs and over stream banks along the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, opening lavender-blue flowers in November and December when every other aster has long since finished. The climbing aster keeps a private schedule, and that contrary timing is the whole charm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common name describes the habit accurately enough but undersells the effect. Given something to climb, the stems can reach fifteen feet or more, the woody structure persisting through winter as no other aster manages. In late fall the display is generous and sustained, hundreds of small lavender-blue heads with yellow disc centers borne on arching stems that drape and weave through whatever the plant has found to lean against. Subtle the climbing aster is not, and few natives are still feeding bees and butterflies so close to the year's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmpelaster carolinianus\u003c\/em\u003e grows in scattered localities along the southeastern coastal plain, scrambling over shrubs at the sunny margins of streams and wetlands, a plant of edges and transitions rather than interiors. In the garden the vine wants something to climb or a structure to lean against, and repays the accommodation handsomely. 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For a gardener in the Carolinas or Georgia, this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here, a piece of the actual Atlantic Coastal Plain flora rather than a borrowed prairie species filling in for a missing native.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flower is the show. Heads an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half across, large for a wild aster, hence the species name grandiflorum, with twenty to thirty narrow ray florets in a deep, saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk. The color carries enough blue to read cool and enough red to read warm, the kind of saturated violet that catches autumn light beautifully. The flowers open at a useful time, October into November, when most of the other asters have already finished and the garden is otherwise leaning toward seed heads, late grasses, and the first frost. Among native asters, grandiflorum is one of the latest to bloom and the largest-flowered, two genuine differentiators the more common species cannot match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plants stand one to three feet tall on stiff, hairy, upright stems, with narrow, lance-shaped leaves and lower clasping foliage. Not a soft, billowy, fall-flowering aster, but an upright, structural one, more architectural than romantic. Dry, sandy soils suit the plant well, and poor conditions that defeat showier perennials are taken in stride, which is part of why grandiflorum has persisted along Coastal Plain roadsides where the native communities have largely disappeared. A long list of late-season insects works the flowers, including specialist Andrena bees that depend on Symphyotrichum and a few related genera for their pollen; without late asters, these bees lose their season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the gardener building a late-fall pollinator garden, anyone planting the actual flora of the Carolinas rather than a generic native mix, or the late-season designer wanting a structural, drought-tough, deep-purple punctuation when most other asters are spent, grandiflorum earns a place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815097459,"sku":"ASTE-GRAN-01Q","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Woodlanders_aster_grandiflorus_1.jpg?v=1730230236"},{"product_id":"aster-georgiana","title":"Symphyotrichum georgianum","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the open oak-hickory woodlands and fire-maintained savannas that once covered the upland South, Georgia aster was a fixture, a late-season native sending up violet-blue flowers in October and November at the precise moment when almost everything else had finished. That landscape is largely gone now, and the aster went with most of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat remains are scattered populations in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, and a handful of other Piedmont sites, stands that persist not because the plant is particularly fragile, but because Georgia aster requires something modern land management rarely provides: disturbance, and fire specifically. The species evolved in ecosystems shaped by regular burning, where the suppression of woody growth kept the canopy open and the light reaching the ground. Take away the fire, and the shrubs move in; take away the shrubs, and the aster comes back. The plant itself is not the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis makes Symphyotrichum georgianum a genuinely interesting garden subject, not just botanically significant but ecologically legible in a way few native perennials manage. In cultivation the aster spreads steadily by underground rhizomes, forming colonies that expand politely over time rather than aggressively. The October flowers are a vivid violet-blue, borne in loose branching clusters on stems that reach three to four feet, late enough in the season to overlap with goldenrods and ornamental grasses, early enough to escape the first frosts across most of the native range. Bees and late-season butterflies find the flowers reliably, sometimes in considerable numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing Georgia aster is, in a quiet way, a conservation act. The garden populations that exist in cultivation, including the Woodlanders stock, represent a meaningful fraction of what remains of this species in any accessible form. A rare plant worth knowing, and worth growing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815228531,"sku":"ASTE-GEOR-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ScreenShot2024-10-28at12.21.34PM.png?v=1730132547"},{"product_id":"aster-eurybia-spinulosus-spinulosa","title":"Eurybia spinulosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis very rare aster, now placed in the genus Eurybia, is a true Florida endemic, native only to the moist pine flatwoods of the lower Apalachicola River. The plant is a botanical oddity: the clumping, foot-tall foliage is narrow, stiff, and grass-like, so unlike the leafy stems of an ordinary aster that a passerby might take the clump for a tuft of sedge. From late spring into early summer, slender flower stems rise above the leaves carrying clusters of inch-wide lavender-purple daisies, each ringing a small yellow eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apalachicola aster is a plant of serious conservation concern, ranked critically imperiled and listed as endangered by the state of Florida, the narrow native world squeezed by development along the river. That rarity is part of what makes the plant so worth growing: nursery propagation keeps a threatened native in cultivation and takes a little pressure off the wild stands. Our current stock traces to a wild collection Bob McCartney sourced in southern Georgia, and that stock has grown at the nursery for about ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappily, the pineland aster has proven willing. The plant has grown well and multiplied in containers here, and should settle readily into a sunny garden bed with sandy, sharply drained soil. The grassy clumps stay tidy and upright, and the late-spring lavender flowers arrive as many earlier perennials fade, drawing bees and other small pollinators to a quiet turn of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom seen in gardens and rarer still in the wild, this is a collector's native for the sunny meadow, the sandy border, or the rock garden, where the stiff grassy texture plays against softer neighbors. Because the plant is so little known in cultivation, we welcome your reports on how the aster performs for you; every garden trial helps secure the future of a genuine Florida rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815359603,"sku":"ASTE-EURY-SPIN-SPIN-01Q","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/EurybiaspinulosaScottAllenDavis.jpg?v=1757094034"},{"product_id":"baccharis-halimifolia","title":"Baccharis halimifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaccharis halimifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is a plant of edges and thresholds, growing where the land loosens and blurs into water: salt marsh margins, ditches, tidal creeks, and back dunes. In fall, when most things are shutting down, the groundsel bush erupts into a soft storm of white seed fluff, like a marsh firework frozen mid-explosion. This is the shrub that coastal Louisiana calls manglier, that botanists call groundsel bush or eastern baccharis, and that local healers have quietly trusted for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA semi-evergreen shrub of the aster family, with small, gray-green, toothed leaves, native to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States. Tough and salt-tolerant, the groundsel bush is a creature of disturbed, sunny ground, and seeds itself freely enough to colonize old fields, roadsides, and cleared land well inland, so site where the abundant seedlings can be managed. Female plants carry the showy white seed masses in fall, a rich late nectar source for migrating pollinators along the coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow groundsel bush in a coastal, wildlife, or rain garden, in sun to part shade, where the salt tolerance and fall display earn a place and the spread can be kept in check. 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In 1979, just before Hurricane Frederic did tremendous damage to the Mobile, Alabama area, we found this plant growing behind the dunes on Dauphin Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot recognizing the shrub, we sent material to the recognized authority on the genus at Southern Methodist University, who identified the plant as Baccharis dioica, a Caribbean species new to Alabama. Otherwise known in the United States only from southernmost Florida, where the species is now considered extirpated, this rare broombush has proven winter hardy for years in our South Carolina garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA salt-tolerant, drought-tolerant shrub for a hot, sunny, coastal or seaside garden, where few other shrubs will take the wind and salt. Like the rest of the genus, Baccharis dioica carries male and female flowers on separate plants, the females bearing soft white seed fluff in fall. 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The black seed pods that follow the flowers rattle into fall and add a second season of interest. Native to the eastern and midwestern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant blue wild indigo in a sunny, well-drained spot, in a border, a prairie or meadow planting, or a native garden, where the blue spring spires read against fresh green and the bold, shrubby clump holds its shape all season. Site once and leave undisturbed, since the deep root resents moving. Lovely with peonies, amsonia, and early grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816735859,"sku":"BAPT-AUST-01G","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-614.jpg?v=1720136585"},{"product_id":"baptisia-alba","title":"Baptisia alba","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaptisia alba\u003c\/em\u003e, white wild indigo, is a striking native perennial of tall spires of white, pea-like flowers over deep blue-green foliage. Native to the eastern and central United States, the species carries a rich history as a dye plant, used by Native American peoples and early settlers as a substitute for true indigo, and the genus name, from the Greek bapto, to dip, records that role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the beauty, white wild indigo fixes nitrogen to enrich the soil and draws bees and butterflies to the spring flowers. Drought-tolerant, long-lived, and low in fuss, the plant grows a deep taproot that resents disturbance, so site once and let the plant settle in place. 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Compact and shrubby, the plant brings strong color and structure to a sunny border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the south-central United States, from Texas north through the prairies, yellow wild indigo is built for heat and lean, dry ground: nitrogen-fixing, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and long-lived, with a deep taproot that lets the plant shrug off drought once settled. Black seed pods follow the flowers and hold into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant yellow wild indigo in full sun and well-drained soil, in a border, a meadow or prairie planting, or a native and pollinator garden, where the gold spring spikes draw bees and butterflies and the bushy clump holds its shape all season. Site once and leave undisturbed, since the deep root resents moving. Lovely with the blue and white wild indigos and early grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816998003,"sku":"BAPT-SPHA-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-619.jpg?v=1720136603"},{"product_id":"bignonia-capreolata-tangerine-beauty","title":"Bignonia capreolata 'Tangerine Beauty'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a high-climbing, semi-evergreen native vine, and 'Tangerine Beauty' is the famous tangerine-orange selection, opening a spring blaze of bright orange, trumpet-shaped flowers and blooming again, more lightly, through the season. Climbing high by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, the crossvine shows to best effect on a fence, a wall, or a trellis in sun or part shade, where the early trumpets draw hummingbirds in numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s. 'Tangerine Beauty' was introduced by Hines Nursery, quite possibly selected from stock supplied by Woodlanders, and is now widely grown, one of the most popular flowering vines for the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Tangerine Beauty' a sturdy fence, wall, pergola, or large arbor and room to climb, where the spring flush of orange trumpets feeds hummingbirds and the semi-evergreen leaves screen year round. Like all crossvines, the plant suckers from the roots and can spread, so site where the roaming can be managed. Native to the southeastern United States: fast, tough, and reliable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818013811,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-TANG-BEAU-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-809.jpg?v=1720136649"},{"product_id":"bignonia-capreolata-helen-fredel","title":"Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a high-climbing, semi-evergreen native vine with bright trumpet flowers, and 'Helen Fredel' is a large-flowered selection in red-orange with a yellow throat, a shade between the old varieties 'Atrosanguinea' and 'Tangerine Beauty'. Climbing high by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, the crossvine flowers heavily in early summer and again, more lightly, later, and shows to best effect on a fence, an arbor, or a trellis in sun or part shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow widely grown, crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s. 'Helen Fredel' comes from the garden of Helen Fredel in College Station, Texas, where the vine apparently grew first on an old two-story house in the neighborhood, and was shared with us by Greg Grant, who saw the larger flowers and good ornamental quality. A native vine with a real story behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Helen Fredel' a sturdy support and room to climb, on a fence, a wall, a pergola, or a large arbor, where the early flush of trumpets draws hummingbirds. The crossvine suckers freely from the roots and can spread into nearby beds, so site where the roaming can be managed, or grow against a wall away from open ground. Native to the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818046579,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-HELE-FRED-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2063.jpg?v=1720136652"},{"product_id":"bignonia-anisostichus-capreolata-var-atrosanguinea","title":"Bignonia capreolata var. atrosanguinea","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a vigorous, semi-evergreen native climber that ascends by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, and var. \u003cem\u003eatrosanguinea\u003c\/em\u003e is the red one: where the typical crossvine flowers orange, this striking selection, introduced by Woodlanders, carries abundant deep red to red-purple trumpets, often over narrower, longer leaves. The flowers even smell faintly of mocha on a warm day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine vine for a wall, a fence, or a trellis in sun or part shade, where the red spring trumpets draw hummingbirds in numbers. Like all crossvines, this red form suckers from the roots and can spread in beds, and is best planted on an isolated support where the roaming can be managed. Native to the southeastern United States, fast and tough once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818144883,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-VAR-ATRO-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-807.jpg?v=1720136655"},{"product_id":"bouvardia-ternifolia","title":"Bouvardia ternifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBouvardia ternifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat-loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet-red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two-to-three-foot frame. A creature of sun and lean, dry, well-drained ground, the firecracker bush shrugs off heat and drought and thrives where water is scarce. Native to the desert Southwest, root-hardy in zone 8 and a year-round shrub in frost-free gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant firecracker bush in a hot, sunny border, a rock or gravel garden, a dry bank, or a xeric planting, where the scarlet tubes draw hummingbirds and butterflies all season. Pairs naturally with salvias, agastache, and other sun-and-drought lovers, and earns a place as one of the best heat-tolerant flowering shrubs for the warm garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818374259,"sku":"BOUV-TERN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Bouvardia_turnifolia_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1737245785"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana","title":"Callicarpa americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe genus name says it: \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa\u003c\/em\u003e, from the Greek kallos, beauty, and karpos, fruit, beautiful fruit, a genus named for exactly what it does. \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e, the American beautyberry, is the southeastern native that gives the genus a calling card. From late August into November, the plant sets dense clusters of small drupes in a luminous magenta-purple, a color that registers as almost unreal in the late-summer landscape, somewhere between fuchsia and amethyst, with no real precedent among native fruits. The berries gather in tight whorls around the stem at every leaf node, all the way down the arching branches, so that a mature shrub in October looks less like a shrub bearing fruit than a ribbon of purple glass beads strung along the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species ranges across the southeastern coastal plain and Piedmont, west into Texas and northern Mexico, with outlier populations in Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Cuba, growing along forest edges, in pine flatwoods, on old-field margins, and in the dappled understory of mixed hardwood-pine canopies. So much a part of the southern landscape that to many southerners the beautyberry feels native to memory itself, the shrub has only really been embraced as a garden plant in recent decades. William Bartram, the eighteenth-century Quaker naturalist whose Travels (1791) remains the foundational botanical document of the American South, described Callicarpa in the Carolina and Georgia woods he walked, and the southern poet Kathryn Stripling Byer used the beautyberry in her poem Beautyberry as a figure for endurance, beauty in the face of adversity, a fair description of how the plant actually lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other story is more recent. In the rural Mississippi of his grandfather's generation, the USDA botanist Charles Bryson had been told that crushed beautyberry leaves, rubbed on the skin or stuffed under a farm animal's harness, kept biting insects away. Bryson passed the tip to Charles Cantrell, a chemist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Oxford, Mississippi, and Cantrell and colleagues isolated three terpenoid compounds from the leaves: callicarpenal, intermedeol, and spathulenol. In peer-reviewed testing against the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever and malaria, callicarpenal worked at roughly 79 percent the strength of DEET; against the blacklegged ticks that carry Lyme disease, and lone star ticks, callicarpenal was statistically equal to DEET; against fire ants, also effective. The USDA patented the compounds. The grandfather was right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, the American beautyberry is a forgiving, durable, slightly unruly deciduous shrub, four to six feet tall and as wide, with an open, arching frame that takes a light pruning in late winter to stay compact and fruit heavily. The shrub blooms and fruits on new wood, so cutting back to twelve or eighteen inches each spring sharply increases the show. The early-summer flowers are small and pale lavender-pink, pretty up close, easy to miss from a distance, and busy with native bees and small butterflies. But the fruit is the event: more than forty species of southeastern birds work the clusters in fall and winter, from bobwhite and cardinals to mockingbirds and thrashers, along with deer, raccoons, foxes, and opossums. The berries are mildly edible, long used for jelly, though the wildlife usually clears them faster than any cook could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the native gardener, the wildlife gardener, the ethnobotanist, or anyone who wants to plant a real piece of the flora of the American South: the plant Bartram saw, the plant Bryson's grandfather knew, the plant the USDA validated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/the-tale-of-callicarpa-americana-beauty-berries-and-botanical-magic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here for our in-depth article on this plant.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820274803,"sku":"CALL-AMER-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callicarpa_americana_close_up.jpg?v=1777573718"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana-bok-tower","title":"Callicarpa americana ‘Bok Tower’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bok Tower' is the white-fruited form of the American beautyberry, swapping the species' electric magenta for clusters of clean, pearly white berries that ring the arching stems in late summer and fall. The pale fruit is cool and luminous, lovely against the green leaves and a striking foil to the purple-berried kinds, and just as good for the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection comes from Polk County, Florida, chosen by Jonathan Shaw at Bok Tower Gardens, and performs best in warm southern zones where winters stay mild. Blooming a little later than the species, 'Bok Tower' carries small white flowers in summer before the white berries follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse white beautyberry in a shrub border, a naturalized planting, or a native garden, where the white fruit lights a shaded spot and plays against darker foliage and the purple beautyberries. Like the species, the leaves are the famous southern insect repellent, and the shrub fruits best cut back hard in late winter. 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'Welch's Pink' is that plant, in a color the species was not supposed to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, a single wild plant fruiting clear, warm pink where every neighbor fruited purple. Michael Dirr, not one to leave a question unanswered, grew out several thousand seedlings expecting the color to break apart. None did. Every one came true. What Welch found in the East Texas piney woods proved genuinely stable, a new expression baked into the genetics rather than a fluke of one season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe berries are larger than the typical species and carry a clear, bright pink, not pastel, not blush, but a frank, saturated color that reads from a distance and holds through the first hard frosts. The fruit whorls encircle each stem from August through October and often persist into winter, until the birds decide otherwise. Before any of that, small pink flowers appear in midsummer, modest enough to miss, vivid enough to be glad you didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeds come true to the pink, so a naturalized colony stays a colony, with no purple reversions drifting back through the planting over time. In a woodland edge, a rain-garden margin, or a border where autumn needs something to say for itself, 'Welch's Pink' makes the point plainly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821257843,"sku":"CALL-AMER-WELC-PINK-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1919.jpg?v=1720136815"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-floridus","title":"Calycanthus floridus","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome plants are loved for how they look. \u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e is loved for how they smell, which is a different and older kind of attachment. The flowers are strange and handsome in their own right, an inch or two across, dark maroon going toward burgundy, built from many narrow strap-like segments with no clear line between petal and sepal, somewhere between a small magnolia and something from the bottom of the sea. But the reason this shrub has been passed down through Southern gardens for three centuries is what happens when the flowers open on a warm day: a deep fruit-bowl perfume, strawberry and pineapple and ripe banana, that drifts well beyond the plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the honest catch, and it is the whole reason provenance matters with this one. The fragrance is gloriously inconsistent. Grown from seed, the scent varies wildly plant to plant, some intoxicating, some barely there, which is why old garden wisdom says to smell before you buy and why the good forms have always been passed hand to hand rather than left to chance. The leaves and bark carry their own spice when bruised, so even between bloom and a fragrance you can rely on, there is something to crush between your fingers on the walk past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history runs deep. Calycanthus came into cultivation in 1726 and never left; Jefferson planted nineteen of them at Monticello in 1778, recording them under the country name \"bubby flower,\" and the shrub has carried a small constellation of names ever since, Carolina allspice, sweet Betsy, sweet bubby, strawberry-bush. The flowers were once tucked into the top drawer of a dresser to scent the linens, which tells you most of what you need to know about how people have felt about them. This is an heirloom in the truest sense, a plant kept alive by being wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey make a dense, rounded shrub of six to nine feet, suckering gently into a colony over time, and they are as easygoing as they are old-fashioned: untroubled by pests, indifferent to soil, happy from full sun into real shade. There is a tradeoff worth knowing. In full sun they flower and scent most heavily but spread more freely; in shade they grow slower and stay more contained. Either way the foliage turns clean gold in fall and the curious urn-shaped pods hang on into winter. 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Where the wild plant blooms a deep maroon, 'Athens' opens soft, buttery yellow, an unexpected and elegant turn on a familiar shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pale flowers carry a ripe, almost tropical perfume, closer to melon and pineapple than the strawberry scent of the maroon forms. Bloom comes in mid to late spring and returns here and there through summer, the flowers tucked among glossy mid-green leaves that furnish the shrub densely from spring to the clear yellow of autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection was shared with the plantsman Dr. Michael Dirr by Jane Symmes of the now-closed Cedar Lane Farms in Madison, Georgia. Dirr named the plant 'Katherine' for his daughter, but the name 'Athens', honoring the University of Georgia town where the selection took hold, became the one most gardeners use. 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Where the heavy garden cannas read as bedding, this species keeps a looser, wilder grace, the petals thin and almost orchid-like, opening in the morning and lasting a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wild the plant runs through marsh edges, ditches, and shallow water, spreading freely by rhizome in moist to wet ground, yet it takes ordinary garden soil in stride as long as the roots do not bake dry. Plant \u003cem\u003eCanna flaccida\u003c\/em\u003e in a sunny, damp spot, a pond edge, a rain garden, a bog, or simply a bed that stays moist, and the yellow flowers will draw bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds through the heat of summer. 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The blades are wide for a sedge, to half an inch, faintly quilted along the veins, and they catch the light with a soft powdery sheen that lifts a shaded planting where most greens recede.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn easy, well-mannered groundcover for shade, the blue wood sedge knits into low colonies along a shaded path, beneath shrubs, or through a woodland border, and reads beautifully against ferns, hostas, and the dark greens of broadleaf evergreens. 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Across the American South the species dominates clay flats and the backwater ground near streams and rivers, reproducing aggressively by seed and by sprouts from roots and cut stumps, and forming a major part of the region's wetland forests, in part because the more marketable timber trees around the water hickory have so often been logged out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tree earns a place in the working landscape as much as the garden. By slowing floodwater and letting sediment settle, water hickory helps cleanse drainage through a bottomland, and the autumn nuts feed wood ducks, squirrels, and other wildlife (the kernels are bitter, hence the common name, and not for the table). Tolerant of wet, periodically flooded ground yet at finest on deep, well-drained soil near water, this is a tree for a large, damp, naturalistic site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe genus is ancient: \u003cem\u003eCarya\u003c\/em\u003e ranged widely in the Tertiary, with fossils recorded from Colorado and Washington and as far afield as China, Japan, Europe, and western Siberia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto credit to John Lampkin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057827450995,"sku":"CARY-AQUA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/carya_aquatica.jpg?v=1721317540"},{"product_id":"castanea-pumila","title":"Castanea pumila","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCastanea pumila\u003c\/em\u003e, the American chinquapin or Allegheny chinkapin, is a deciduous large shrub or small tree native to the eastern and southeastern United States. Long admired by rural foragers and old-time orchardists, this relatively rare native once flourished across the South, where children filled their pockets with the spiny burrs and the sweet, nutty treasure inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResembling the better-known cousin, the American chestnut (\u003cem\u003eCastanea dentata\u003c\/em\u003e), the chinquapin bears elongated, serrated, oval leaves and, from late summer into fall, small edible nuts about the size of a hazelnut, each wrapped in a prickly burr that splits when ripe. The nuts are rich, sweet, and highly prized, eaten raw, roasted, or worked into the old recipes from a time when the forest fed the family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat sets the chinquapin apart is blight resistance. 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From early summer into fall, creamy-white pincushion balls about an inch across stud the branches, each a sphere of tiny tubular flowers with projecting styles that lend a fireworks effect, intensely fragrant and alive with bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plant of wet places in the wild, buttonbush thrives along pond edges, in rain gardens, ditches, and seasonally flooded ground, and tolerates standing water that defeats most shrubs, yet takes an ordinary garden bed in stride given sun and steady moisture. The rounded seed heads that follow the flowers persist into winter and feed waterfowl and other birds, a second season of interest after the bloom. 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The broad, bamboo-like blades are wider than most grasses can claim, and the plant carries them in a loose, arching mound that takes deep shade without sulking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe glory is the seed heads: flat, drooping spikelets shaped like flattened oats that dangle from thread-fine stems and set the whole plant nodding at the least breath of air. Green through summer, they ripen by way of bronze and coppery tan into autumn, then dry to warm straw that holds well into winter and longer still in a vase, which has long made river oats a favorite for cut and dried arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use this grass to bring movement and light to the places few grasses will grow: a woodland edge, a shaded border, a streamside, or the ground beneath open-canopied trees. Mass for a naturalistic, prairie-meets-woodland effect, or thread among ferns, hostas, and other shade companions for a contrast of texture. 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The plant has fared better. \u003cem\u003eChelone lyonii\u003c\/em\u003e grows wild along streambanks and seeps in the high southern Appalachians, and 'Hot Lips' is the selection that turned the color up, deeper rose-pink flowers over foliage that emerges with a bronze cast. The flowers arrive in late summer and run into fall, which is the real gift, holding color in the moist and shaded corners just as the rest of the garden tires. Only a bumblebee is strong enough to force the blooms open, so a planting in flower comes with a low percussion of bees muscling in and backing out. 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