Native Plants from American Beauties

Native Plants from American Beauties™

Botanical Name     Common Name
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Juniperus virginiana
Common Name: Eastern Red Cedar
This evergreen conifer is the best bird attracting tree in Eastern North America. Its 25' pyramidal form provides dense cover year round, and its shredding bark is used by many birds for nest construction. Female trees produce round, gray or bluish b...

Kalmia latifolia 'Pink Charm'
Common Name: 'Pink Charm' Mountain Laurel
One of our best loved native shrubs, mountain laurel is a hardy broadleaf evergreen that blooms in late spring. 'Pink Charm' has dark red-pink buds that open to rich pink flowers with a narrow dark pink band inside the flower near the base. It sets f...

Lindera benzoin
Common Name: Spicebush
This is a wonderful broad, rounded multi-stemmed shrub covered with fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. The flowers open before the leaves emerge and are held close to the branches. Aromatic light green leaves turn yellow-gold in fall. Birds fee...

Lobelia cardinalis
Common Name: Cardinal Flower
Brilliant red spikes set against green and purple bronze colored foliage. Each individual spike of scarlet flowers opens from bottom to top and stays in bloom for several weeks. Hummingbirds and swallowtail butterflies love the nectar. Benefits: ...

Lonicera sempervirens
Common Name: Trumpet Honeysuckle
When it comes to providing nectar for hummingbirds, trumpet honeysuckle is one of the earliest and longest blooming plants you can grow. Hummers flock to the tube-shaped deep red flowers with yellow throats as soon as they begin to bloom. Whorls of b...
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