New American Beauty Plants
Each spring, American Beauties™ adds a dozen or more new plants to the collection. At other times of the year, new plants are added as they become available. Check here to see the latest additions. Click on a thumbnail image to read more about a particular plant.
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The king of native grasses, Big Bluestem has handsome gray to blue-green stems in spring turning to green alternating with deep red in summer then to coppery red in fall. Three fingered seed heads top tall stems in August. Clump forming with excellen...
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Common Name: Butterfly Weed
Hello Yellow Butterfly Weed produces many golden yellow, flat-topped flower clusters in early June. Flowering goes on for many weeks. Green pods full of seeds with silky white hairs follow the flowers. This is an essential plant if you want to at... [ More Info ]
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Common Name: Sky Blue Aster / Symphyotrichum oolentangiensis
This hardy native plant lights up the autumn garden with it's brilliant pale blue blooms. Found throughout the tallgrass prairie, Sky Blue Aster is found in a wide variety of locations from wet meadows to dry gravel outcrops. This is good news fo... [ More Info ]
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Common Name: New Jersey Tea
New Jersey tea is a dense shrub that is ideally suited for the edge of the woods or along the back of a border. It's habit is full and its leaves are bright green throughout the summer. Billowing clusters of tiny, fragrant white flowers appear on lon...
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Common Name: Atlantic White Cedar / Whitecedar Falsecypress
This little beauty is a great evergreen for small gardens or for grouping in larger landscapes. 'Top Point' White Cedar is a truly dwarf evrgreen, growing only 3" per year and reaching only four feet at maturity. Its blue foliage is soft in appearanc...
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