(Sweet Woodruff)

A popular woodland groundcover, sweet woodruff is a low-growing, herbaceous perennial native to Europe, North Africa and Russia. This fast-growing plant displays tiny, white, star-shaped flowers in late spring to mid-summer. Its attractive whorls of bright green leaves have a distinctive sweet taste when they first emerge in spring and are used to flavor May wine, a popular herbal wine enjoyed in Germany. Only newly unfurled foliage may be used for this purpose. Sweet woodruff grows best in sites...

(Eastern Teaberry, Spreading Wintergreen)

A close relative to blueberries and cranberries, spreading wintergreen is very hardy little evergreen, semi-woody groundcover adapted to the organic, acid soils of the forest floors of eastern North America. It is the source of the favorite chewing gum flavor, wintergreen, and its leaves offer the same cool taste if chewed.

This is a very low-growing plant that slowly creeps by rhizomes to form neat, non-aggressive mats of dark green, leathery, oval-shaped foliage. In winter, the leaves turn...

(Eastern Teaberry, Spreading Wintergreen)

A close relative to blueberries and cranberries, spreading wintergreen is very hardy little evergreen, semi-woody groundcover adapted to the organic, acid soils of the forest floors of eastern North America. It is the source of the favorite chewing gum flavor, wintergreen, and its leaves offer the same cool taste if chewed.

This is a very low-growing plant that slowly creeps by rhizomes to form neat, non-aggressive mats of dark green, leathery, oval-shaped foliage. In winter, the leaves turn...

(Eastern Teaberry, Spreading Wintergreen)

A close relative to blueberries and cranberries, spreading wintergreen is very hardy little evergreen, semi-woody groundcover adapted to the organic, acid soils of the forest floors of eastern North America. It is the source of the favorite chewing gum flavor, wintergreen, and its leaves offer the same cool taste if chewed.

This is a very low-growing plant that slowly creeps by rhizomes to form neat, non-aggressive mats of dark green, leathery, oval-shaped foliage. In winter, the leaves turn...

(Eastern Teaberry, Spreading Wintergreen)

A close relative to blueberries and cranberries, spreading wintergreen is very hardy little evergreen, semi-woody groundcover adapted to the organic, acid soils of the forest floors of eastern North America. It is the source of the favorite chewing gum flavor, wintergreen, and its leaves offer the same cool taste if chewed.

This is a very low-growing plant that slowly creeps by rhizomes to form neat, non-aggressive mats of dark green, leathery, oval-shaped foliage. In winter, the leaves turn...

(Salal)

Few evergreen shrubs solve as many problems for woodland home sites surrounded by excessive shade and clay-rich soils. Salal is a Pacific Coast native, growing in the understory of woodlands from California north to Washington and over a larger part of Alaska. It adapts well to the long dry season of California and yet stands just as well in the rain soaked Seattle woods, proving its adaptability.

Large leathery, emerald leaves give a truly lush appearance to these shrubs. They flower in early...

(Lindheimer's Beeblossom)

Lindheimer's beeblossom is a long-lived hardy perennial that is native to Texas and Louisiana. It has an airy habit, fine green, rose or purple-hued foliage and tall stems lined with delicate, open, five petaled flowers with long prominent anthers. These bee and butterfly magnets appear from early summer to fall and are generally pink in bud opening to white. Remove spent flower stalks to extend flowering and prevent self-sowing. There are many beeblossom cultivars that vary in height, vigorousness,...

(Ballerina Blush Beeblossom, Lindheimer's Beeblossom)

Ballerina blush beeblossom is a long-lived hardy perennial that originates from Texas and Louisiana. It has a compact, bushy habit, dark green foliage and arching stems covered with delicate, open, five petaled flowers of blush pink with long prominent anthers. These bee and butterfly magnets appear from early summer to fall. Remove spent flower stalks to encourage more flowers.

Beeblossom is tolerant of drought, heat and humidity. It prefers sites with full sun and well drained, average soil....

(Ballerina Rose beeblossom, Lindheimer's beeblossom)

Ballerina rose beeblossom is a long-lived hardy perennial that originates from Texas and Louisiana. It has a compact habit, fine rose-hued dark green foliage and arching stems covered with delicate, open, five petaled flowers of rose with long prominent anthers. These bee and butterfly magnets appear from early summer to fall. Remove spent flower stalks to encourage more flowers.

Beeblossom is tolerant of drought, heat and humidity. It prefers sites with full sun and well drained, average soil....

(Blushing Butterflies Beeblosson, Lindheimer's Beeblossom)

Lindheimer's beeblossom is a long-lived hardy perennial that is native to Texas and Louisiana. The cultivar 'Benso' has a compact, dense habit, fine green foliage and long stems lined with delicate, open, five petaled flowers with long prominent anthers. Also known as blushing butterflies, these bee and butterfly magnets appear from early summer to fall and are soft pink. Remove spent flower stalks to extend flowering and prevent self-sowing.

Beeblossom is tolerant of drought, heat and humidity....