Heat tolerant

Rare and unusual, this is a gorgeous native plant with everything one could want in a garden perennial: upright form, excellent foliage, a long bloom time, and resistance to insects and disease. Typically found in the openings of oak-hickory woodlands, clearings, powerlines, and roadsides, it adapts well to disturbance, heat, and…

Little Bluestem is a clumping warm season grass in the Poaceae family. In full sun, this plant can get up to four feet tall and slightly less wide. Blue-green linear leaves turn golden to orange in fall and persist in winter, adding winter interest to the garden. Like many of our…

Bright yellow flowers with showy stamens bloom throughout summer into early fall on the current year’s growth. Shrubby St. John’s Wort is a deciduous to evergreen shrub with a compact and dense habit. Its dark green leaves grow oppositely or in whorls along multi-stemmed branches. In nature it is found in…

American Ipecac is an herbaceous perennial or subshrub in the rose family. This deciduous plant has alternately arranged and trifoliate-pinnatifid leaves, with dentate margins. In fall, leaves turn yellow to red. In early summer, delicate white star-shaped flowers with four to five petals appear. Although these flowers aren’t super striking, they…

Cream flowers form clusters or bracts on long panicles over compound elliptical leaves. Cream Wild Indigo is a compact, mounding legume with incredible wildlife value. Flowers in the Baptisia genus are unique in shape and while accessing nectar may be arduous to some insects, our native bumblebees gladly rise to the…

  Cutleaf Coneflower is a deciduous perennial in the Asteraceae family. Bright yellow daisy-like flowers appear in summer through early fall. The leaves are deeply lobed or “cut” which the common name refers to. As with most coneflowers, this plant prefers full sun to part shade. It can get pretty tall,…

  Buffalo Grass is a semi-evergreen grass in the Poaceae family. Fast spreading in full sun, this grass makes a great lawn alternative. This species is only about eight inches tall and can handle mowing. It does well in clay or loam and is drought tolerant. It can stay green with…