Maryland Native Plants for Spring: Baptisia tinctoria – Yellow Wild Indigo
Spring Blooming Beauties Baptisia tinctoria – Yellow Wild Indigo Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Best in full sun. Tolerates drought and poor soils. Over time, plants form slowly expanding clumps with...
Edible Maryland Native plants: Allium cernuum – Nodding Onion
Edible Maryland Native Plants Allium cernuum – Nodding Onion Allium cernuum – nodding wild onion, is an edible native plant which occurs primarily in rocky soils on glades, bluff edges, open woods and slopes in the Ozark region of the State. Plants...
Maryland Native Plants for Meadows: Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass
Glorious Grasses Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass Eragrostis spectabilis, also called purple love grass, is a warm-season bunchgrass with flat, coarse, basal leaves, followed by soft reddish-purple flowers in a loose, open inflorescence in August....
Maryland Native Trees for Spring: Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud
Spring Blooming Trees Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis, also known as eastern redbud is a deciduous, multi-trunked understory tree that displays brilliant clusters of rose-pink flowers on bare branches in early spring, before the foliage...