Goat’s Beard is a deciduous, clumping perennial herb in the Rosaceae family. It has erect stems with alternate and serrate dark green leaves. White flowers, male and female on separate plants, appear above the leaves in May and June. The flowers are star shaped and make great cut flowers. Not…
Wild Strawberry is a semi-evergreen groundcover in the Rosaceae family. It blooms in early spring, showing white flowers that will become edible berries by the end of the summer. Although it can handle occasionally dry soil, it prefers moist well-drained soils. Wild Strawberry, like others in the Fragaria genus, support…
The Black cherry is an important southern tree for both wild life and commercially. Young black cherries tend to have a conical crown but when given enough room, the mature trees develop long limbs and arching branches giving it an oval shaped crown. The Black cherry’s fall foliage is a golden…
Our area (NC and surrounding states) represents the southern tip of the range for this shrub, which is much more common to the north. In NC and Va it occurs in some mountain counties and some coastal plain/lower piedmont counties. The common name “Steeplebush” reflects it’s pink steeple-like blooms in late…