Native mid-atlantic plants for floral design: a working catalog…
Find inspiration for your piece of the flower farm in this palette of native species with high value for floral design.
Flowering Perennials
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana)
Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis)
Blue mist flower (Conoclinum coelestinum)
Eastern red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Coral bells (Heuchera americana)
Blue cardinal flower (Lobelia siphilitica)
Beebalm (Monarda didyma)
Spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata)
Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia spp.)
Goldenrod (Solidago spp.)
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)
Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns
River oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
Tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
Pink Muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Purpletop (Tridens flavus)
Gray's sedge (Carex grayi)
Marginal wood fern (Dryopteris marginalis)
Royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
Shrubs + Vines
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
Northern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Coastal dog-hobble (Leucothoe axillaris)
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
Pinxterbloom azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides)
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace')
Arrowwood viburnum (Viburnum dentatum)
Possumhaw viburnum (Viburnum nudum)
Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens)