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Scientific Name | Common Name | Native | Soil Moisture 1=Dry 2=Med 3=Wet |
Partial shade tolerance | Drought Tolerance 1=Low 2=Med 3=High |
Salt Tolerance 1=Low 2=Med 3=High |
Pollution tolerance | Compaction tolerance | Flower colour | STEP star! | Illustration |
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Achillea millefolium ssp. Lanulosa | Common Yarrow | Y | 2 | 2-3 | 2 | Y | Y | O | ☆ | ![]() | |
Agastache foeniculum | Blue Giant Hyssop | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2-3 | 3 | Y | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | |
Alisma plantago-aquatica | American Water-plantain | Y | 3 | 1 | 2 | O | ![]() | ||||
Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum | Wild Chives | Y | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
Amsonia hubrichtii | Arkansas Blustar flower | 1-2 | Y | 2 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar | 2 | Y | 2 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Anaphalis margaritacea | Pearly Everlasting | Y | 2-3 | 3 | 3 | Y | O | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Anemone canadensis | Canada Anemone | Y | 2 | Y | 1-2 | 2 | O | ![]() | |||
Antennaria spp. | Pussytoes | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
Aquilegia canadensis | Wild Columbine | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | 1 | ![]() | ||
Armeria maritima 'Dusseldorf Pride' | Dusseldorf Pride Sea Thrift | 1-2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ![]() | |||||
Artemisia schmidtiana | Silver Mound Artemesia | 1-2 | Y | 2-3 | 3 | O | ![]() | ||||
Aruncus dioicus | Bride's Feathers | 2-3 | Y | 1-2 | 2 | O | ![]() | ||||
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp milkweed | Y | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly Milkweed | Y | 1-2 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Baptisia alba | Rattlebox, White Wild Indigo | 1 | Y | 3 | 3 | O | ![]() | ||||
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ![]() | |||||
Bidens cernua | Nodding Beggar-ticks | Y | 3 | Y | 1 | 2 | Y | 2 | ![]() | ||
Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggar-ticks | Y | 2 | Y | 1-2 | 2 | Y | 2 | ![]() | ||
Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia, False Aster | 2 | 2 | 2 | O | ☆ | ![]() | ||||
Caltha palustris | Marsh Marigold | Y | 2-3 | Y | 1 | 1 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Cerastium arvense ssp. strictum | Field Chickweed | Y | 1 | Y | 2 | 2 | O | ![]() | |||
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | Y | 2-3 | 1 | 1 | O | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Chelone lyonii | Pink Turtlehead e.g. cultivar 'Hot Lips' | Y | 2 | Y | 1 | 1 | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lance-leaved Coreopsis/Tickseed | Y | 1-2 | Y | 3 | 3 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Coreopsis rosea | Pink-flowered Tickseed | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | |||||
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick-trefoil | Y | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3 | Y | 1 | ![]() | |||
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata (Aster umbellatus) | Flat-top White Aster | Y | 2-3 | 1 | 2-3 | O | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower | 1-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | ||||
Epilobium coloratum | Purple-leaf Willow-herb | Y | 3 | 2 | 2 | Y | Y | 1 | ![]() | ||
Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's Plantain Fleabane | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
Eupatorium maculatum ssp. maculatum | Spotted Joe-pye Weed | Y | 3 | 2 | 2 | Y | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 1 | Y | O | |||
Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop | Y | 2 | Y | 2-3 | 2 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Fragaria virginiana ssp. virginiana | Common/Wild Strawberry | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | Y | O | ![]() | |
Gaillardia aristata | Great Blanket-flower | 2 | 2-3 | 1-2 | Y | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Geranium maculatum | Wild Crane's-bill / Wild Geranium | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | |||
Geum triflorum | Prairie Smoke | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
Helianthus divaricatus | Woodland Sunflower | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2 | 3 | Y | 2 | ![]() | ||
Helianthus strumosus | Pale-leaf Sunflower | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2-3 | 2-3 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke | Y | 1 | Y | 2 | 3 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Oxeye Sunflower | Y | 2 | 2-3 | ? | 2 | ![]() | ||||
Hosta ssp. | Hosta (various) | 1-3 | Y | 1-2 | 2 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Hydrophyllum virginianum | John's Cabbage / Virginia Waterleaf | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2 | 3 | ![]() | |||
Impatiens capensis | Spotted Touch-me-not | Y | 2 | Y | 1-2 | 1 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Iris versicolor | Blue Flag Iris | Y | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Lespedeza capitata | Round-head Bush-clover | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2-3 | 3 | Y | O | |||
Leucanthemum superbum | Shasta Daisy | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ![]() | |||||
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | Y | 2-3 | Y | 1 | 1 | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed Loosestrife | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 1-2 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Matteucia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica | Ostrich Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, preferred | 2 | 1-2 | O | ![]() | |||
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Bee-balm | Y | 1-3 | 2-3 | 2-3 | Y | Y | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | |
Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, perferred | 1-2 | 1-2 | O | ![]() | |||
Opuntia fragilis | Spreading Prickly-Pear | Y | 1 | Y | 3 | 3 | 2 | ![]() | |||
Osmunda cinnamomea / Osmundastrum cinnamomeum | Cinnamon Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, preferred | 1-2 | 1 | O | ![]() | |||
Packera paupercula | Balsam Ragweed | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ![]() | ||||
Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue | Y | 1-2 | 2-3 | 2-3 | Y | O | ![]() | |||
Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy beardtongue | Y | 1-2 | Y | 3 | ? | 3 | ![]() | |||
Podophyllum peltatum | May Apple | Y | 2 | Y | 1 | ? | O | ![]() | |||
Potentilla anserina ssp. anserina | Silverweed | Y | 3 | 3 | 2 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | ||
Rudbeckia fulgida | Orange Coneflower | Y | 1-2 | 3 | ? | 2 | ![]() | ||||
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-Eyed Susan | Y | 1-3 | 2-3 | 3 | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Rudbeckia laciniata | Green-Headed Coneflower, Cut-leaf Coneflower | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Salvia spp. | Sage (various) | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Sedum album | White Stonecrop | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | O | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Sedum hybridum | Hybrid Stonecrop | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Sedum reflexum | Jenny's Stonecrop | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Sedum sexangulare | Tasteless Stonecrop | 1-2 | Y | 3 | 2 | Y | 2 | ☆ | ![]() | ||
Sedum spurium | Dragon's Blood Sedum | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Sisyrinchium montanum | Strict Blue-eyed-grass | Y | 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Solidago altissima var. altissima | Tall Goldenrod | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Solidago canadensis var. canadensis | Canada Goldenrod | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Solidago flexicaulis | Zig-zag Goldenrod | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2-3 | Y | 2 | ![]() | ||
Solidago nemoralis ssp. nemoralis | Grey Goldenrod | Y | 1 | Y | 2 | 3 | Y | Y | 2 | ![]() | |
Solidago patula | Roundleaf Goldenrod | Y | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ![]() | ||||
Solidago ptarmicoides (Oligoneuron album) | Prairie Goldenrod | Y | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 2 | ![]() | |||
Solidago rugosa ssp. rugosa | Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod | Y | 2 | 1-2 | 2 | Y | 2 | ![]() | |||
Stachys byzantina | Lambs' Ears | 1-2 | 2-3 | 2 | 3 | ![]() | |||||
Symphyotrichum cordifolium | Heart-leaved Aster | Y | 1 | Y | 2-3 | 2-3 | Y | 1 | ☆ | ![]() | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster | Y | 1-2 | 2 | 2-3 | Y | Y | O | ☆ | ![]() | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum | Panicled Aster | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2-3 | Y | Y | O | ☆ | ![]() |
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England Aster | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2-3 | Y | Y | 3 | ☆ | ![]() |
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense | Sky-blue Aster | Y | 1 | Y | 2-3 | 2 | Y | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | |
Symphyotrichum puniceum | Swamp Aster | Y | 2-3 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Thalictrum pubescens | Tall Meadow-Rue | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 2 | O | ![]() | |||
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens | Marsh Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, preferred | 1 | 1-2 | O | ![]() | |||
Thymus serpyllum | Mother-of-Thyme | 1-2 | 3 | 2-3 | Y | 1 | |||||
Tradescantia virginiana | Virginia Spiderwort | 2 | Y | 1 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Trichostema brachiatum (Isanthus brachiatus) | False Pennyroyal | Y | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ![]() | ||||
Verbena hastata | Blue Vervain | Y | 2-3 | 1-2 | 2-3 | Y | Y | 3 | ☆ | ![]() | |
Verbena stricta | Hoary Vervain | Y | 1-2 | 2-3 | 2 | Y | 3 | ![]() | |||
Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain | Y | 2 | Y | 3 | 2 | Y | O | ![]() | ||
Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver's root | Y | 2 | 3 | 2 | O | ☆ | ![]() | |||
Waldsteinia fragarioides | Barren Strawberry | Y | 1-2 | Y | 2 | 2-3 | O | ![]() | |||
Yucca filamentosa | Narrow-Leaved Yucca | 1-2 | 2-3 | 2 | O | ![]() | |||||
Zizia aurea | Common Alexanders | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 2 | Y | 2 | |||
Liatris spicata | Blazing-star, Dense | Y | 1-2 | N | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | Y | 2-3 | Y | 1 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | |||
Eutrochium maculatum var. maculatum | Joe Pye Weed, Spotted | Y | 3 | Y | 2 | 3 | Y | Y | O | ![]() | |
Mimulus ringens | Square-stemmed Monkey Flower | Y | 2-3 | Y | 2 | 1 | Y | 1 | ![]() | ||
Allium cernuum | Nodding Wild Onion | Y | 2 | Y | 2 | 1 | Y | 1 | ![]() | ||
Helenium autumnale | Sneezeweed, Common | Y | 1 | 2-3 | 2 | Y | Y | 3 | ![]() | ||
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Shield/Wood Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, preferred | 1 | 1 | Y | O | ![]() | ||
Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum | Lady Fern | Y | 2-3 | Y, preferred | 2 | 1 | Y | O | ![]() | ||
Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | Y | 3 | Y, preferred | 2 | 1 | Y | O | ![]() |